He got out of bed and opened the door just as the Wagon Lit conductor came hurrying along the corridor and knocked on Ratchett’s door. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

The conductor was screaming for folks to run on up to the other passenger cars. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

“You’ll need a ticket for your son as well,” the conductor told her, nodding his head at Will, gaping in the aisle. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Then two weeks later the porter and conductor of the north bound local had helped her off the train at Maitland. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

In the four years since his divorce became final, it’s fair to say that the conductor has become something of an unbeliever. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

I remember what Bedi Ma'am said about conductors as I whip our tickets out of my pocket. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

Smiled dazzlingly and coquettishly at the salmon-colored face of the conductor. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

The white train conductor came to check our tickets. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had traveled a long way, squatting in rattling trains, hiding from conductors and nosy old ladies. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

The conductor let his arms fall limply at his sides and stood quite still as darkness claimed the forest. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

The conductor scurried off again, to knock at the door where the light was showing. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You did not hear, for instance, a commotion going on in the compartment next to yours? The American lady who occupies it had quite an attack of hysterics and rang for the conductor.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

The conductor put the ten francs in his pocket. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

The conductor then departed; the musicians left their instruments and also left. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

“The next race is about to begin, gentlemen,” Mr. Whitby guffawed, punctuating the statement with a jab of his cigar, in a flourish as enthusiastic as an orchestra conductor. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

In accord with the wheel’s operating procedures, the conductor had locked the door at the start of the ride. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Poirot leaned out and spoke to the Wagon Lit conductor who was hurrying past. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

With a gesture M. Bouc signified that the three conductors might depart. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

I watch as he surveys the apocalyptic scene before him, then raises his arms like a conductor and in an instant every power tool goes silent. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

“He is known to have been alive at about twenty minutes to one, when he spoke to the conductor,” said M. Bouc. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Twinkle. The water is a conductor of the heavens. I’m listening for messages.” From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

When the Joneses reached Chicago, they befriended a group of abolitionists, black and white, working together as “conductors,” assisting slaves to freedom on the hidden tracks of the Underground Railroad. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

She flew up the aisle, scooting between the conductor’s legs as if he was a tunnel on an obstacle course. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Two conductors pushed passed us, not yelling but screaming, waving knives. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

"Das Family House," he announces, like a conductor at the end of the line. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

"Please, sir, would you be able to send a message to the conductor? How would I go about that?" What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I hear the conductor’s voice in my head and wonder if it’s a Sign. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

The conductor got out and tried to push people away, but there were too many and he couldn’t stop them. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

She followed the conductor down the aisle, staggering from side to side as the train lurched to a stop. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

And then, somehow, I got my wits about me and I felt about with my hand and I pressed the bell for the conductor. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most times when new-free slaves come to Buxton they get helped here by a Underground Railroad conductor, but every once in the while they find us all on their own. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

I wouldn’t move into the streetcar but stood on the ledge over the conductor, glaring. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Of Sourmetal Smells—like steel bus rails and the smell of the bus conductor’s hands from holding them? The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then the conductor’s baton stopped moving and the orchestra fell silent. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

He raised his hand like an orchestra conductor, and when he lowered it, Chester chirped on the downbeat. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Clutching the viola case, I arrive at the conductor. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Within days leading performers and conductors began to telegraph their disapproval to the DAR. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

It was almost as if the sound sprang up at the rising of his hand, just as the music of a great orchestra seems to leap under the bâton of the conductor. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

The train seemed to inch its way into the station, and I wanted to scream at the conductor to hurry up already. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

Both of the other conductors also declared that they had not lost a button. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

She stuck the bag right out in the middle of the aisle, where the conductor and everybody could trip over it. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

We would hop onto the car at the end opposite from where the conductor stood. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

There was no conductor or policeman in sight, only an old lady with a walker slowly trudging toward the stairs and, at the far end of the platform, a sleeping bum in tattered sneakers. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The conductor, a harrassed look on his face, was keeping them back. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

The conductor came and unlocked the door for them with his key. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

The conductor displayed to Poirot with a dramatic gesture the beauty of his sleeping compartment and the neat arrangement of his luggage. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

In fact, the competence and dedication of the young conductor would soon come to the attention of his superiors, who would waste no time offering the stalwart fellow a promotion. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

"Please stop messing with the nice train conductor and let's go." The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Ralph has his hands out, patting the air like a conductor. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

The conductor’s hand went automatically to his tunic. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Wagon Lit conductor to whom he had appealed nodded. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

Voldemort raised the Elder Wand, holding it as delicately and precisely as a conductor’s baton. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

“Quite usual, sir. He used to ring the bell for the conductor and then send him for me when he was ready to get up.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

The conductor thought that the cups and bags from the animals’ party had been left by Mario or Papa. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

For now, the conductor simply watched through the window as the train pulled away. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

To the conductor, his wisecrack sounded like a snippy yap. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

“Stop that! You’ll hurt yourself,” cried the conductor, but Trashman held him away with one hand while he turned the bottle cap in his jaws with the other. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

It was Paul, the conductor on the shuttle. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the conductor passed by, she showed it to him. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The conductors were trying to block the train and then it started moving. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The conductor promptly stopped the tram and hailed a policeman, who arrested us, took us down to the station, and charged us. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The streetcar rolled by them slowly so that the conductor and motorman could study Ignatius’ costume more closely. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The orchestra claimed that Conant’s “shortness of breath was overhearable” in her performance of the famous trombone solo in Mozart’s Requiem, even though the guest conductor of those performances had singled out Conant for praise. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

I’d never have caught up to that bus if it hadn’t been for the conductor’s shrill whistle, calling the driver to a stop. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

I hear the breathing, the clearing of throats, the accidental springing up of a seat as the audience adjusts and the conductor lifts his baton to begin. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The conductor stuck his head in the car. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

We ran alongside the train, waving at the conductor. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Like steel bus rails and the smell of the bus conductor’s hands from holding them. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No pets on the train!” the conductor barked. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

The conductor slammed on the brakes every time he came to the next station. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

"More snow to come, they say," said the fat lady with the string bag to the bus conductor. The Dark is Rising 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

The conductor marched into the car, carrying Scruffy by the scruff of his neck. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

But the conductor and the regular train travelers sure weren’t hypnotized. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Perhaps he did not wish to before the Wagon Lit conductor. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

The conductor stood in the aisle next to her seat and spoke a bit louder than he normally would, in order to be heard over the screechy din of the train’s brakes being applied. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

“You say that you yourself heard Ratchett speak to the conductor at twenty minutes to one?” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

I found that if you walked up and showed a railroad line’s employee identification card, the conductor—even a real cracker, if you approached him right, not begging—would just wave you aboard. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I am glad you have come Monsieur,” said the conductor with a sigh of relief. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

Leaving the dining-car I asked the conductor for tickets for the first service. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

The conductor and several male passengers tried to subdue him, but he shook them off and raced for the door. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

He has watched them grow up to become clerks and bus conductors. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The conductor asked her for the five-cent fare, and Anthony said in a loud voice, “I am traveling at the expense of the government. Ask him for my fare.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

"Now, here's what a bus ticket looks like. If you get on a bus, you have to pay a man called the conductor." Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

Wherritt again went wild, and again the conductor and his allies subdued him, but they were growing tired. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

He paid his fare, watching to see if the conductor was noticing him; then went through the car, watching to see if any face was turned to him. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

The Wagon Lit conductor was hovering in the doorway. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

Either way, I should go to the train station and see if I can find the regular conductor for that route. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

The conductor, a narrow man in khaki, slid towards them on the bus rails. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jiichan seemed reluctant to let the conductor touch the rice and basket, so he simply threw them down and quickly jumped off. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

On the Gratiot streetcar she told the conductor, “Please, I want Hastings Street.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

As days went by, we could recognize the conductor from afar. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

The way he says my name is a little more comforting than the way I imagined that creep Philly would say it; it’s more like a conductor giving a pep talk before a sold-out performance. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

This is not a train conductor or a security guard or even a late Halloween costume. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

By that autumn, his farm was the latest office of the underground railroad, busy with fugitives and conductors. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

I wouldn’t have gotten on the 7 train with the theological conductor looking for God. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

Celibidache was a conductor from the old school, an imperious and strong-willed man with very definite ideas about how music ought to be played—and about who ought to play music. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

We start walking, looking over our shoulders every few minutes and trying to put as much distance between us and the train conductor as possible. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“Last stop,” the conductor’s voice garbled over the intercom. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

And then, like there was a conductor waving a baton, we both started laughing at the same time. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

“Yes, Monsieur. I got down on to the platform as usual and stood by the step up into the train. The other conductors did the same.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Frost drops her magazine and even the receptionist has stopped typing, her hands held above her keyboard like a conductor waiting to cue a symphony. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

“All a matter of routine. This poor conductor, he seems to have had a busy night—first waking you and then answering bells.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was not his own conductor, but a big fair man. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

First it was Theodore Thomas, conductor of Chicago’s symphony, who saw the island as the ideal site, the only site, for a music hall worthy of the fair. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

He was holding a conductor’s baton and was surrounded by officers. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Emily was unsure where to board or who to pay, but James led the way, stepping up at the front and showing a pass to the conductor. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

The conductor must stop to fix the problem. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

It would resume, the conductor said in English, French, and German, in an hour and a half. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

The conductor flipped the steps up and yelled, “All aboard,” as the woman come running toward the train. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

The conductor replaced the bags and they moved on to the next compartment. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rahel could smell the sheaf of bus tickets and the sourness of the steel bus rails on the conductor’s hands. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was no conductor, and Papa pushed open the door. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

It’s proportions were ninety per cent of Mrs. Hubbard’s to a soothing ten percent of the conductor’s. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

Right that minute, the conductor came around for old Mrs. Morrow's ticket, and it gave me a chance to quit shooting it. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

She toured the country from coast to coast, performing with some of the great singers, musicians, and conductors of the day. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

The conductor’s divorce had not been easy on him. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

“And please don’t tell anyone I said so, sirs and madams, but if I were you, I’d hide that bird out of sight. The conductors won’t like it, first-class tickets or not. ” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

I nodded yes, whereupon the conductor cheerfully punched my ticket and mumbled something about Jabavu being a fine man. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the conductor opened the door and lowered the steps, only two passengers stood in the door, waiting to disembark: a man and a woman, their hands intertwined. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

Then he’d pace up and down, up and down, restless, sighing, wandering through the aisles, the blackboard pointer poised in his hand, the pointer he used either like a conductor’s baton or a musketeer’s sword. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the Salzburg Festival in Austria in 1935, the celebrated conductor Arturo Toscanini attended one of her recitals. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

A child can be the conductor of the piece, and set a tempo by slowly moving their finger along the “score” as other children perform their different parts. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

“He went along to his compartment and I called to the conductor to make up my bed.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

Poirot slipped his hand into the pocket and took out a conductor’s pass key, used to unlock the doors of the compartments. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was the train conductor, snipping holes in the tickets of each passenger as he passed through the aisle. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

“The whole system’s gone to pot. Masks everywhere, grown men threatening children—” “I’m only doing my job,” said the conductor. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

“It is difficult to say. You see it is turned off by the conductor every morning about ten o’clock.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s like she’s the conductor and every sound in the air is part of her symphony. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It is very unlikely. But in such a case this conductor would fetch her.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had fallen right next to a Hindu conductor whose chest was bleeding heavily. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“If Hildegarde Schmidt’s story is true, how is it that the real conductor did not mention having seen her when he came to answer Mrs. Hubbard’s bell?” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

The mayor breezed by, followed by the postman and the train conductor, and each of them stopped to say hello. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

When she does stuff like that, my father puts his forehead in his hand and store people and conductor people look at her like she is nutty for sure. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

"The 'conductor.' Ah. I see. He must have liked the look of you." What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

If you persuaded the conductor you were a fellow employee who had to go home on some family business, he just did the favor for you without a second thought. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Miig stood, pacing his Story pace, waving his arms like a slow-motion conductor to place emphasis and tone over us all. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

The conductor helped me lead you down the aisle. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

“I am Chroma the Great,” he continued, gesturing broadly with his hands, “conductor of color, maestro of pigment, and director of the entire spectrum.” The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

“No, Madame. I think you heard the man pass through—but unconsciously; later you had a nightmare of a man being in your compartment and woke up with a start and rang for the conductor.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

When we get out of the bus we should do so only after asking the conductor or we will be injured and make the doctors have a busy time. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Many musicians thought that conductors were abusing their power and playing favorites. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

The conductor seemed almost—but not quite—convinced. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

“Of course. Subway conductors need to protect their ears,” I say. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

There was only one occupant at the moment, obviously the young English lady referred to by the conductor. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

The conductor would know and he was there to take my ticket so I wasn’t too worried. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was last known to be alive at 12:37 last night, when he spoke to the Wagon Lit conductor through the door. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Better go up front and get a seat,” the conductor said. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the first trolley stopped, she shouted at the conductor, “Downtown?” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The conductor emerged from the compartment, having swung the suitcases up on to the racks. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

A conductor who rode trains with his family and lit out for the Territories. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

One conductor stepped on my bare toe, crushed it, as he trampled past. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“Shall I tell her, sir? She’s been demanding to see someone in authority for a long time. The conductor’s been trying to pacify her.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

The conductor says, Fares, please, fares, but Uncle Pat says, Go ’way an’ don’t be botherin’ me, can’t you see the state o’ me leg? Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

And there were words: words in the language that the conductor couldn’t process, words the Cardinals couldn’t bear, words the wires couldn’t transfer. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

On a high podium in front stood the conductor, a tall, gaunt man with dark deep-set eyes and a thin mouth placed carelessly between his long pointed nose and his long pointed chin. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

Trunks slide across tiles and a little dog yaps and a conductor’s whistle blows and some kind of big machinery coughs to a start and then dies. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

He’d slept most of the journey to Boston, the conductor poking him awake once they’d reached South Station, and he was the only person left in the compartment, the last to get off. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

A conductor gives them their bedding, heavy white cotton sheets and thin woolen blankets. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Opening the door into the corridor, he called for the conductor. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

He recognized the pimply wizard: His name was Stan Shunpike, and he was in fact a conductor on the triple-decker Knight Bus. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

The voice of the conductor resided with great constancy just below the customary pose of the fighter pilot. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The conductor, who was on the platform stamping his feet and waving his arms to keep warm, spoke to him. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

It seemed like a fact, because when conductors and music directors and maestros held auditions, the men always seemed to sound better than the women. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

Andrew and Carleton would go on to become a train conductor and an engineer, respectively. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The conductor of the next coach was summoned. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

When other boys wanted to be policemen and streetcar conductors and cowboys, he still said he wanted to explore. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

He added that the conductor from the Bucharest coach had also been there. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

“At about ten-thirty, sir, this Italian wanted to go to bed. So the conductor came and made the beds up.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

The kids ran off laughing, a conductor chasing them. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

The train whistled twice, and a conductor called, “All aboard!” Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

The Wart began to hang behind his conductor a little, and perhaps it was as well that he did, for they were almost on top of their destination before he noticed h. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

The conductor had hidden them in the baggage car, but when they approached Niagara Falls, he took them into one of the coaches. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It isn’t a real bird, conductor sir. We’d never dream of breaking the rules like that. It’s my sister’s favorite toy, you see, and she thinks you mean to take it away from her.” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

The more complicated adventures undertaken by composers with notation, orchestras, opera singers, conductors, musicological analysis and the rest are still vital parts of music’s main body, but they are not in truth its central purpose. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

That is not to say that some classical musicians did not attain fame and success, but these were mostly singers, conductors and virtuoso players, making their names with Verdi, Mahler, Mozart or Wagner. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

The conductor had to shake him when they arrived. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Twinkle lit a cigarette and began to smoke it with relish, waving it around Sanjeev’s head as if it were a conductor’s baton as Mahler’s Fifth Symphony roared from the stereo downstairs. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

The conductors wave their signals to one another, the wheels roll slowly away, the compartments glide forward one by one. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

And the conductor, Mengele, stands at the fork of these two rivers, keeping time to the music we provide him. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“It was not the same conductor who woke me, Monsieur. It was another one.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Rules are rules!” the conductor said, his patience fraying. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Their eyes swept across the station as the conductor cried, “All aboard!” The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

“No money! That will never do!” the conductor said. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

At the very bottom of the page, past some fluff story about the anniversary of some train conductors’ strike, was a picture of Clancy Gray. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

The conductor returned with a bundle of passports and tickets. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the far end of the platform, a conductor waved his arms over his head. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Then a conductor in a purple uniform leapt out of the bus and began to speak loudly to the night. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

The orchestra conductor said he felt Booth’s hot breath as the assassin pushed past him and struck at him with the knife. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Emily was unsure where to board or who to pay, but James led the way, stepping up at the front and showing a pass to the conductor. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

The Wagon Lit conductor had come up to the two men. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

Also, I remembered from when I used to take the subway that the conductors used keys to open and close the doors, so there were those, too. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Could you see the conductor from your position?” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

The conductor is walking away from us now, shaking his head and muttering to himself as he plods through the empty train car. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

When the conductor called out, “Fairfield Heights. Last stop,” a half hour later, Milkman looked out again and this time he saw her disembark. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our conductor/evangelist goes quiet, and it’s another minute of sitting in the dark before we move again. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

At the door stood the porter and the conductor, a black man and a white man of the South, both crying. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

After the sixth stop, he asked the conductor when the next train returned to the city. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

This can happen unconsciously, or it can be deliberate, as when a conductor asks for an interval to be "expanded" or "contracted." Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

She awoke to find the conductor leaning over them saying quietly, “Sumimasen.” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Then I got handed up to the conductor, who stood on the steps of the caboose—Lightfoot right behind me. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Which is why the conductor makes his announcement over the loudspeakers. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

This firsthand information about the Underground Railroad, by a woman who had served as one of its conductors, thrilled that first audience before whom she spoke. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

The conductor slowed the train to a crawl, waved, and gently dropped a large brown bag in front of us as he went by. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Some people who had never been there ever, came; they got directions from maps, subway conductors, and police. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

I head to my favorite spot—the two-seater in the corner next to the conductor’s box. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

It ruined my chance to play the game of evading the conductor with my pals. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

One conductor says the officers, fifteen at a time, stop the trains. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

In two rows of seven each, plus the student conductor. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

Some of them are crying, but the conductor can tell it’s not from sadness. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

She saw their closed faces, their locked eyes, and turned for compassion to the gray eyes of the conductor. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Calm down, it’s right here,” said the conductor, and he pointed above our heads. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

“I couldn’t say. I don’t remember anyone passing except the conductor. Wait a minute—and there was a woman, I think.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Tickets, please,” called the conductor as he worked his way down the car. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

"Yes, the conductor told me to come here." What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Frozen in place, she listened to Fabyan, who was still chatting with the conductor. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“I saw it moving earlier!” the conductor said. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

“No. 13. We played picquet together. About eleven o’clock my wife retired for the night. The conductor made up my compartment and I also went to bed. I slept soundly until morning.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

The men had climbed up the stairs, had started to enter our car, but our conductors managed to force them back down the stairs. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“At any rate, it makes sense. Why stay in Borrowdale? The conductor said an old man gave them the money to travel.” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Finally the conductor and the brakeman, with a lantern, came to the rescue. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

When the Boston-New York train arrives at smaller stations along the route, the conductor announces, “All doors will not open.” The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Was aroused by conductor at 12:38 approx, and went to mistress. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

He would ring for the conductor and ask him for some mineral water. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the conductor waved his arms, he molded the air like handfuls of soft clay, and the musicians carefully followed his every direction. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

The conductor ran his finger along the stops. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

She had grown up knowing all the bus stops and the side streets, understanding the cryptic codes of conductors and the body language of street hawkers. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

For a split second, two strands of conductor filament connected, sending power flooding to one of the tunnel beams. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

Our conductor said, “One other rule, sirs: Ye glimpse my face, and I cut your throats.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

“This button, Madame, may have dropped from the conductor’s uniform, either when he searched your cabin, or when he was making the bed up last night.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

People rushed on, and the recorded conductor’s voice said, “Stand clear of the closing doors, please.” Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

“Have no fear, my friend. We will arrange something. There is always one compartment—the No. 16, which is not engaged. The conductor sees to that!” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

The conductor looked at the bit of wax his fingernail had retrieved. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Then he repacked the hatbox and told the conductor to return them both where they belonged. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some of them wore the uniforms of the jobs they’d had too: policemen, postmen, nurses, trolley conductors. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

When the conductor announced that the next stop was New Haven, Ifemelu felt a stab of loss. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“Oh, it’s a long journey this time,” Etienne will say in an entirely new voice, smooth, velvety, a conductor’s drawl. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

“Time to get aboard, son,” the conductor called. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

A glance of understanding passed between them, and the conductor smiled. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

To the delight of the crowd, the conductor led his orchestra in “Hail to the Chief,” the traditional musical accompaniment to the entrance of the president. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Why, for so many years, were conductors so oblivious to the corruption of their snap judgments? Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

The conductor stuck his head out of one of its windows and shouted, “Eight-thirty to London! All aboard!” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

At first, I walk around the room, waving my arms as if I’m carrying a baton—like the conductor I saw at the New York Philharmonic concert with my mom. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

There were bartenders, bricklayers and bus conductors all over the world who wanted him dead, landlords and tenants, traitors and patriots, lynchers, leeches and lackeys, and they were all out to bump him off. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

“Oui, Monsieur,” said the conductor, who was just leaving the car. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s not often they search your grips at the frontiers—not if you fix the conductor. I handed out a wad of Turkish notes right away, and there’s been no trouble so far.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

A curtain separated the colored car from the white, and only the porters and the conductor could pass through. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

Maybe that was why the conductor had said the rear car was closed. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Used train passes normally do not appear in suburban wastebaskets; they appear in the pockets of train conductors. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

The conductor, now on the scene, asked Goetz if he was a police officer. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Royal placed the coded messages in the classifieds that informed runaways and conductors of departures. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“I think the conductor passed along once,” he said, “coming from the direction of the dining car. And a woman passed the other way, going towards it.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the door slammed on the conductor’s exit, Helene walked down the aisle to a seat. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

He was fixing to say something, but the fancy automaton conductor standing at the door said, “Sir? We’re trying to make up time.” The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

Like steel bus rails and the bus conductor’s hands from holding them. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The conductor lifts his baton, and I'm invigorated hearing the familiar passages: the drone of the double bass as the heartrending introduction begins, the strings peeling away layers like birch bark. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I see the train conductor pick up the paper tickets, punch holes in them with a metal clicker, and replace them into the seat tabs. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“The conductor often has to answer bells at night. Do you remember which compartment it was?” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

The conductor probably just did that for style and not because Texarkana was both in Arkansas and Texas. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The conductor man come through and calls from the front of the car, “Sorry, folks, we expect to be delayed anywhere from forty-five minutes to an hour.” The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

It was when he was listening to a confused account of the missionary aims of the Swedish lady that one of the Wagon Lit conductors came into the car and stood at his elbow. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

The conductor yelled, “Chatham,” opened the door at the front of the car, and pushed the big set of steps down to the platform. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

See, back then it wasn’t just the porters and the conductors and such that worked on the trains. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“This way to your cabin,” said the conductor. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

“That is explained, I think. When he arrived to answer Mrs. Hubbard, the maid was in with her mistress. When she finally returned to her own compartment, the conductor was in with Mrs. Hubbard.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bo takes the blue-and-white-striped conductor hat and then reaches over my shoulder to grab a lollipop from the bowl of candy. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

“You will find the scarlet kimono in the baggage of one of the men and you will find the uniform of the Wagon Lit conductor in the baggage of Hildegarde Schmidt.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Where was the conductor when you went to your compartment?” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

We waited for a while at each stop and then the conductor came through to punch tickets. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The conductor started dancing a jig so Scruffy couldn’t latch on to the cuffs of his uniform pants and yank them down. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

That meant an official audition committee was established instead of a conductor making the decision all by himself. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

Mario’s friend Paul, a conductor on the shuttle, came over to the stand. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Eye went on: “The conductor says the General’s children got off at Borrowdale, but one of the passengers—an exmember of the Filed Teeth gang—swears they caught the next train to Mazoe.” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

To get even with a railcar conductor who wouldn’t stop for him, Louie greased the rails. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

We were about to board the train when the conductor stopped us. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

He snapped and snarled and yapped at the conductor. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

“A Wagon Lit conductor himself puts up the luggage! It is unheard of!” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Everyone sing!” he shouted, raising his hands like an orchestra conductor, gesturing with my lute like a baton. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Electrodes, which are conductors of electricity, would be placed on the skin in those areas. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

Steve was standing at the back of the aisle, waving his gorilla arms like a conductor. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

“I’m just the orchestra conductor, making sure everybody’s in the right place at the right time.” The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

At the far end of the train is a man with a baton, a conductor. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

A sourmetal smell, like steel bus rails, and the smell of the bus conductor's hands from holding them. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then came voices—the conductor’s, deferential, apologetic, and a woman’s—insistent and voluble. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the truth, overheard by one of the passengers from a conductor, quickly circulates: a suicide had been committed, a person had jumped in front of the train. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Unless I got impaled on a tomato cane, like the priest in The Omen who gets spiked by a falling lightning conductor. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Like the conductor, at that moment Miss Lumley had no way of predicting whether her life would turn out happily or in some other, less desirable way. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

When the conductor came around to collect the fares, Stuart fished in his purse and pulled out a coin no bigger than the eye of a grasshopper. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z

This intelligence enables us to recognize, create, reproduce, and reflect on music, as demonstrated by composers, conductors, musicians, vocalists, and sensitive listeners. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

The conductor loves the notion that you can be made anew, free of sin and therefore worthy of love and salvation. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

The conductor looked at me and then at you, and stuck a hand in his pocket and pulled out a hard green sweet that had melted out of shape. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

As they opened the door marked colored only, they saw a white conductor coming toward them. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Conducting26 also depends on the meter of the piece; conductors use different conducting patterns for the different meters. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

The conductor, a tiny man in a beaver hat and Prince Albert coat, was jumping up and down like a tin clown. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

We sit for five minutes before the conductor decides communication would be good. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

The conductor called street names in a tone that I could not understand. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

I soon ran afoul of the Florida cracker who was assistant conductor. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But these are the only conductors on the train. You must be mistaken.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

She stood facing the crowd behind a planter filled with dirt, her hands raised above it like a conductor. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Auditions for major orchestras were sometimes held in the conductor’s dressing room, or in his hotel room if he was passing through town. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

Waving her arms like a conductor, she led them in a raucous “Happy Birthday” and dished out generous gobs of ice cream. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

Papa goes to talk with his conductor friend and comes back to the table, beaming. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The conductor flared up: “Get out of that seat!” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

At the other end, sitting on his little seat, the conductor was entering up figures on large sheets of paper. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

Returning a pair of gloves to the store when they gave her two pair instead of the one pair she paid for; giving quarters she finds on the seat to conductors on the trolley. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Symphony orchestras, which operate under the weight of even more tradition than chamber ensembles, have struggled to alter the concert format beyond adding preconcert lectures, program notes and conductor remarks. How Do You Teach People to Love Difficult Music? 2018-03-09T05:00:00Z

The solo work was dropped from the program, and a substitute conductor was lined up for at least the first of the three concerts scheduled. After the volcano, the show goes on at Seattle Symphony 2010-04-23T20:44:00Z

Magnesium also acts as an electrical conductor that helps the heart beat and contracts muscles. Magnesium: Everything you need to know about this important micronutrient 2023-02-01T05:00:00Z

Even from a distance, he remains engaged with the institutions he leads, discussing plans for upcoming seasons and offering opinions on conductors and composers. Daniel Barenboim, a Towering Maestro Held Back by Illness 2022-11-08T05:00:00Z

There are more female conductors working across Britain, Europe and the world than ever before. Sex still sells classical music but attitudes are changing 2013-06-11T16:59:45Z

What made the Walt Disney Concert Hall performance on Thursday particularly fascinating is that 58-year-old Salonen, who is probably the best-known Finnish musician since Sibelius, is in his prime as both a composer and conductor. Making Sibelius modern with Esa-Pekka Salonen 2017-04-07T04:00:00Z

Franz Welser-Möst, the closest thing the Viennese have to a chief conductor, is on the podium for the Philharmonic’s annual visit to Stern Auditorium. Classical Music in NYC This Week 2017-02-23T05:00:00Z

Hunter was invited to meet the famed Henry Hall, conductor of the BBC Dance Orchestra. Bernard Hunter 2012-10-07T13:17:00Z

The Russian maestro Valery Gergiev, who has long been close to Mr. Putin, was fired as chief conductor of the Munich Philharmonic and saw his international engagements dry up. Too Close to Putin? Institutions Vet Artists, Uncomfortably. 2022-03-05T05:00:00Z

Mr. Morlot, the conductor, said he was looking ahead to his next concerts. Debating the Seattle Orchestra’s Foray With Sir Mix-A-Lot 2014-06-10T04:00:00Z

“Anna Bolena” is a long opera, but the many cuts — a number of which date to the Callas revival — inflicted on the score by the conductor Evelino Pidó² may actually make the opera seem longer. Opera Review: Anna Netrebko?s Bel Canto Moment 2011-04-12T11:05:35Z

The whole thing was, though, a generally intense and pleasurable musical experience in the hands of UrbanArias founder and conductor Robert Wood. Review | The Wright stuff: Avant-garde architect as subject of traditional opera 2017-10-15T04:00:00Z

And this incredible disdain that some male conductors have for the musicians that they’re conducting. A Conductor’s Battle With a Classical Music Gender Barrier 2023-03-07T05:00:00Z

He added that improvisational elements can be quite subtle, as in Mr. Braxton’s “Composition No. 27,” which allows a conductor to choose the tempo at each new section. Orchestras Looking to Broaden Horizons? Start Improvising 2020-08-25T04:00:00Z

You wouldn't ask a conductor to go on Gardener's Question Time. Brian Sewell: the BBC's factual television is an insult to the nation 2013-06-15T16:45:00Z

Too many conductors assume the first rehearsal will be spent sorting out technical difficulties only to find there are none. Andris Nelsons 2010-06-05T23:05:00Z

“I still can’t believe it worked,” said Dudamel, the music director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the Paris Opera, of he and his fellow conductors getting together. California’s Leading Conductors Come Together for a New Festival 2023-01-31T05:00:00Z

Still, most listeners at the first performance, on Wednesday evening, probably focused more on the Italian conductor Gianandrea Noseda, returning to the orchestra after more than a decade away. Review: Gianandrea Noseda Returns to a New York Philharmonic in Transition 2017-11-23T05:00:00Z

Perhaps not the most diplomatic way for an aspiring young conductor to address a musical eminence. A Revolutionary ‘Sinfonia’ Returns to the Philharmonic 2018-05-24T04:00:00Z

When the ensemble appears at Lincoln Center next year it will be with a freshly conceived name, and with the conductor Jonathon Heyward at the helm. Review: At Mostly Mozart, the Sense of an Ending 2023-07-26T04:00:00Z

Mozart in the Jungle about an eccentric conductor that shakes up an old-fashioned symphony world was also chosen through the pilot process. Amazon's Hysterical, Saucy 'Catastrophe' Marks An Inspired Win In The Binge Wars 2015-06-26T04:00:00Z

In 1994 he was conductor and arranger on the singer's first tour since 1966, which opened in London before returning to the US for a string of dates. Marvin Hamlisch obituary 2012-08-08T12:26:28Z

In the early eighteen-hundreds, his grandfather, Richard Lambert, a free black man, moved to New Orleans, where he became a conductor of the interracial Philharmonic Society and a music teacher. A Small Step Toward Correcting the Overwhelming Whiteness of Opera 2017-05-18T04:00:00Z

Under legendary conductor Eugene Ormandy the orchestra visited China in 1973 as part of a historic thaw in relations between the two countries. Philadelphia Orchestra announces China tour 2013-04-11T07:02:16Z

The noted British conductor Richard Farnes, who was music director of Opera North in England for 12 years, led this “Falstaff” in his Met debut, with mixed results. Review: Ambrogio Maestri Returns for Another Round as ‘Falstaff’ 2019-02-24T05:00:00Z

"Oh, yes, I think so," says Zeitouni by phone from his native Montreal, on a day of rehearsals with I Musici de Montréal, a 27-year-old chamber orchestra that recently appointed him principal conductor. Guest conductor approaches 'Messiah' anew 2011-12-15T20:59:11Z

Historically, European opera houses were the traditional training grounds for young conductors of all kinds. Gustavo Dudamel Hasn’t Conducted Much Opera. That’s OK. 2021-04-18T04:00:00Z

“I’ve now recorded all of the Haydns,” he says, “all of the Bruckners, in every version — we’re the only orchestra and I’m the only conductor that’s ever done that — Honegger, Schubert, and Philip Glass.” At 80, America’s most famous composer remains a maverick. The man who’s conducted his 11 symphonies talks about why. 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z

Mr. Gilbert is not the only conductor with a playlist. Music Review: The New York Philharmonic at Avery Fisher Hall 2013-06-02T20:37:30Z

He forged close alliances with older Stravinsky supporters like Copland and the conductor Serge Koussevitzky, as well as Leonard Bernstein, still in his 20s. Celebrating the Works of Irving Fine, Born 100 Years Ago 2014-10-31T04:00:00Z

His stepfather is a railroad conductor for New Jersey Transit. Jenna Krueger, Corey Saxe 2018-05-13T04:00:00Z

The conductor Edward Gardner enforces vigor and exactitude while sometimes slowing the music down to play up words. In Britain, Opera Season Opens With ‘Otello’ and ‘William Tell’ 2014-09-24T04:00:00Z

Indeed, we no longer live in a world where the conductor Sarah Caldwell could make the cover of Time. The Fate of the Critic in the Clickbait Age 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z

“It’s very much the same route that the great conductors of the past took, going from opera coaching to opera conducting and eventually to symphonic work.” Jeffrey Tate, Conductor Whose Life Was a Worldwide Whirlwind, Dies at 74 2017-06-06T04:00:00Z

A conductor, perceived to be aligned with the opposition in wartime, pushed from his podium in disgrace. Putin’s Maestro, and the Limits of Cultural Exchange in Wartime 2022-03-02T05:00:00Z

But I did not want any kind of sexual contact with the conductor. ‘I couldn’t deal with it, it tore me apart’: surviving child sexual abuse 2019-02-01T05:00:00Z

The German violinist, also a prolific recording artist, plays Schumann with Seattle Symphony and guest conductor Thomas Dausgaard this week. Lots of entertainment treats for Oct. 30-Nov. 5 2011-10-26T22:17:04Z

Wright said that he did not "programme by demographic" and that the last night programme "plays to Alsop's strengths as a conductor". Last night of Proms 2013 to be conducted by a woman 2013-04-18T13:09:00Z

First, the conductor takes the stage: a tall, stately man in white tie and tails, pacing up and down with catlike steps while he talks into the microphone to the audience. NSO’s ‘New Moves’ festival closes with Jessica Lang and Leila Josefowicz

The orchestra says it's searching for a replacement and will use guest conductors to save money. Philly Pops seeks to end conductor's contract 2012-06-12T11:13:09Z

The British violinist who became a conductor and founded the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, one of the most renowned chamber orchestras in the world, also died on Sunday. Essential Arts & Culture: Remembering Gordon Davidson, Roy Lichtenstein's L.A.-tinged pop, MOCA's problematic show 2016-10-07T04:00:00Z

Bell and Zukerman both will be doing double-duty as soloists and conductors of the London-based orchestras they serve as music directors – the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields and the Royal Philharmonic, respectively. Wang, Lang, Ma and Bell rule Philharmonic Society's 15-16 season 2015-01-25T05:00:00Z

When Nikolaus Harnoncourt died at 86 in March, music lost an important conductor, a deeply inquisitive mind and a powerful force for disruption of the status quo. CD reviews: Harnoncourt’s last Beethoven 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z

Well paced by the conductor Steven Osgood, the school’s performance, while ambitious and accomplished, made clear the piece’s challenges; those bugle calls are relentless, and the voices often exposed. Opera Review: ‘The Mother of Us All,’ at Manhattan School of Music 2013-12-12T23:24:21Z

But Ehnes's account was always lithe, truthful and eloquent, and in the third movement, soloist and conductor allowed Elgar's masterly ruminations all the space and depth they demand. Philharmonia/Ashkenazy – review 2013-06-14T16:59:51Z

"It's very important to understand that the conductor doesn't conduct with his hands, actually," Morlot explained. Seattle Symphony unveils 2012-13 season 2012-01-27T21:01:04Z

The Catalan-born early-music luminary frequently combines his roles as a viola da gamba player and conductor with a passion for history. ‘The Routes of Slavery’ traces a musical journey of resilience in the face of inhumanity 2018-10-31T04:00:00Z

“I don’t want to be seen as a sort of eclectic conductor,” said Noseda on Monday, speaking by phone from Paris, where he is rehearsing the Orchestre de Paris. Kennedy Center’s classical season offers focus on Italy, Noseda 2018-01-30T05:00:00Z

But for a conductor to trust the music to tell its drama is a rare act of altruism, and by the final chorale the impact was profound. BBCSSO/Volkov - review 2011-01-31T18:04:33Z

But what really got me thinking about becoming a conductor was watching my first operas. Portrait of the artist: Edward Gardner, conductor 2012-06-12T18:00:01Z

The conductor was left to discuss terms on his own, as he grew more anxious about his lack of control over guest conductors — his rival Stokowski among them — and what they performed. The Conductor Who Whipped American Orchestras Into Shape 2021-05-14T04:00:00Z

“Let’s see if they even ask. But has there ever been a conductor who says no to the New York Phil?” A Conductor Who Knows His Way Around a Score, and a Farm 2022-07-29T04:00:00Z

I think he could have been a famous music conductor or viola player. Why the Velvet Underground could only have come from New York 2018-11-23T05:00:00Z

Onstage chemistry is important to Ms. Batiashvili, not only in performance with her husband but also in the interaction with a conductor. Lisa Batiashvili on Violins, Ukraine and Valery Gergiev 2015-01-31T05:00:00Z

Most conductors plunge straight into the torment to come; no pause, after all, is marked in the score. Nathalie Stutzmann Ushers In a New Era at the Atlanta Symphony 2022-10-05T04:00:00Z

We’ve asked four conductors with Northwest connections about their careers and hopes for the future. Conducting’s glass podium: Female music directors are still rare, but the Northwest has nurtured some 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z

He was also a conductor on the Underground Railroad who helped slaves to freedom. For Henry Louis Gates Jr., a lifelong interest in family history in 'Finding Your Roots' 2014-10-17T04:00:00Z

The conductor, David Robertson, will lead the final two new dates; the Feb. 4 performance will be conducted by J. David Jackson. ‘Porgy and Bess,’ a Hit for the Met Opera, Gets an Encore 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z

In the auditorium, the ensemble’s assistant conductor, Courtney Lewis, followed along with the score spread out on his lap. Peter Eotvos Prepares the Opera ‘Senza Sangue’ 2015-04-24T04:00:00Z

Mr. Sinatra followed his father into music as a teenager, eventually working for the senior Mr. Sinatra as his musical director and conductor. Frank Sinatra Jr., Singer Who Followed in His Father’s Footsteps, Dies at 72 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z

Searching was easy: by season, by conductor, by composer. An Opera Lover Tests Streaming Services 2014-08-22T04:00:00Z

He unwittingly releases a drift of pigs from a house and later comes across an elegant jumble sale of a man who wields his walking stick like a “conductor’s baton.” His Life Was Too Boring for a Memoir. So He Wrote Ireland’s. 2022-03-15T04:00:00Z

The question spotlights the distinct place that large choruses hold in the international hierarchy: Choruses are major ensembles, but their conductors are viewed as something of a breed apart. Review | Christopher Bell strikes soundly in his first D.C. outing 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z

I took lessons with a really good friend of mine who’s a young conductor, and then took a master class with Gustavo Dudamel. Gael García Bernal on His Surprise Golden Globes Win for 'Mozart in the Jungle' 2016-01-29T05:00:00Z

While working as a cellist with the Gothenburg symphony, Mälkki enrolled in conducting courses at the Sibelius Academy, where Salonen and other famous Finnish conductors also began their careers. With every flick of her baton, conductor Susanna Mälkki chips at classical's glass ceiling 2018-01-19T05:00:00Z

The third job was a little less remarkable — namely, to further assert the reasons why she won't remain an assistant conductor for much longer. Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla shows why she's moving up in latest L.A. Phil show at Disney Hall 2015-12-11T05:00:00Z

The conductor scanned the ticket on my phone and moved on. We took a plane, train and (rental) automobile for the experience, not the journey 2020-07-09T04:00:00Z

“She is always taking kernels of text that have a lot of resonance in the stories of the world we live in,” Donald Nally, the conductor of the Crossing, said of Wolfe. A Composer Shifts Her Focus to Climate, With Help From Children 2023-05-31T04:00:00Z

He then embarked on his career as a conductor, founding a chamber society in New York. Robert Craft, conductor and longtime Stravinsky confidant, dies at 92 2015-11-14T05:00:00Z

Baroque music from this orchestra and its principal conductor, Bernard Labadie, who deliver two works by Handel and four by Vivaldi, including two settings of the “Salve Regina.” 7 Classical Music Concerts to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2020-01-30T05:00:00Z

The firebrand composer and conductor Pierre Boulez once wrote that it is essential that a creative artist “hides his first attempts and destroys his traces.” A Teenage Pierre Boulez, Heard for the First Time 2019-04-19T04:00:00Z

That he succeeded was demonstrated anew in a sublime account by the conductor Paul Hillier and Theater of Voices, the vocal quartet for which the work was written. Music Review: David Lang?s Music at Zankel Hall 2012-01-31T22:55:56Z

The Met said that the conductor of the final three performances would be announced at a later date. The Met's James Levine Won't Conduct New "Lulu" 2015-10-02T04:00:00Z

Robin Ticciati, the exciting young British conductor, is on the podium. 10 Things to Do in NYC Now 2017-03-24T04:00:00Z

The composition for chorus and full orchestra — complete with a conductor in tails highlighted by a spotlight on stage — is Western. Arts Playground Sprouts in China 2010-08-03T14:27:00Z

He left my mum, my younger brother and me for a life in London with a trolley-bus conductor. Family life 2013-06-15T06:15:01Z

Separately, Matthew Aucoin, an assistant conductor at the Metropolitan Opera, is using Walt Whitman's poetry about being a medic to develop a new opera. Colleges, theaters to create new Civil War plays 2013-02-28T07:16:06Z

When she made her Metropolitan Opera debut in December 2016, she was just the fourth woman conductor of a company that started in 1883. Mälkki could be 1st woman music director of NY Philharmonic 2022-01-11T05:00:00Z

But he also acknowledges a pivotal experience in adolescence with Abraham Kaplan, the celebrated conductor and composer, and longtime director of choral studies at the University of Washington. Maestro to embrace the theatrical side of ‘Messiah’ for SSO 2012-12-13T22:15:11Z

Under the direction of conductor James Kreger, the chorus did its job admirably. In ‘Annelies’ D.C. premiere, music based on Anne Frank’s diary doesn’t reflect her voice

My answer was: I think yes, in my early years as a conductor. After a Punishing Sprint, Yannick Nézet-Séguin Can Celebrate 2022-03-06T05:00:00Z

In the 1980s and ’90s he was a frequent guest conductor of symphony orchestras. Mitch Miller, Maestro of the Singalong, Dies at 99 2010-08-02T16:28:00Z

The conductor showed off the BSO’s sinewy strong, sonorous sounds via serpentine melodies performed in breathtaking fashion by solo instrumentalists — and all of it underpinned by a relentless yet human heartbeat. Endlessly beautiful music from pianist Inon Barnatan, accompanied by the BSO 2016-10-16T04:00:00Z

Despite the demands of a flourishing international career and a new post as the chief conductor of the Konzerthaus Orchestra in Berlin, he insists on making his home in Hungary. Ivan Fischer Returns to Mostly Mozart With ‘Nozze di Figaro’ 2013-08-09T18:45:43Z

At times it’s plain weak, and the conductor was unafraid to show it. Review: Christian Tetzlaff Sharpens Mendelssohn’s Edge 2015-11-04T05:00:00Z

Yet in Ardoin’s transcripts of her comments, when Callas draws on her long experience and approach to the role, she almost always credits her mentors, especially the Italian conductor Tullio Serafin, for providing crucial insights. Tyne Daly as Maria Callas vs. Maria Callas as Herself 2011-07-26T17:01:13Z

The conductor Robert Spano held his arms up and waited until the cellphone stopped before continuing. Music Review: Philadelphia Orchestra Performs at Carnegie Hall 2014-05-04T21:35:50Z

Realities include not only chaperons for the kids, but a wrangler to keep them on track and an assistant conductor who ritually warms them up before the show. The kids steal the show in ‘The Sound of Music’ 2017-07-06T04:00:00Z

Hire and commission Asian and Asian American singers, instrumentalists, conductors and composers to break stereotypes and amplify our individualities and complexities. A Violinist on How to Empower Asian Musicians 2021-07-21T04:00:00Z

But for this conductor and this orchestra, it felt like a place to start. Review: Gustavo Dudamel Leads His New York Philharmonic 2023-05-20T04:00:00Z

As concertmaster, or leader of the first violins, Mr. Preucil is second in importance and power only to the orchestra’s conductor. Cleveland Orchestra Suspends a Star After Accusation of Assault 2018-07-27T04:00:00Z

“I hope this is the beginning of a bigger conversation about how we handle harassment in classical music, and how conductors are often held on a pedestal,” she said. Trinity Church Fires Conductor After Misconduct Accusation 2022-03-14T04:00:00Z

The German conductor Marc Albrecht drew a consistently plush, urgent and taut performance from the Vienna Philharmonic. Music Review: A Daring Production of 'Lulu' at the Salzburg Festival 2010-08-03T20:47:00Z

But there is more than enough in its 10 volumes to confirm Gielen as one of the most stimulating conductors of the 20th century. His Conducting Wasn’t Always Pleasant. But It Was the Truth. 2022-02-17T05:00:00Z

“And then in New York, there is this incredible thing, that I am stepping into the world of great conductors like Bernstein.” Jaap Van Zweden Is a Global Maestro of Music and Multitasking 2016-10-26T04:00:00Z

From the familiar overture to the sparkling finale, conductor Giacomo Sagripanti sustained the show’s forward momentum with speedy transitions and deft support of the singers. Seattle Opera offers an action-packed ‘Barber of Seville’ 2017-10-16T04:00:00Z

The popular image of this composer as an unwitting visionary — “half genius, half klutz,” as the conductor Hans von Bülow once said — developed early on. Still Searching For Bruckner?s True Intentions 2011-07-09T04:30:28Z

He and the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra’s principal conductor, Thomas Wilkins, helped train the ensemble and they took turns conducting it in a special performance at Walt Disney Concert Hall on Saturday night. The pitfalls and joys of taking a stand with music and with youngsters 2017-07-23T04:00:00Z

Indeed, while he has dipped his toe into the operatic repertory in Los Angeles, at the Metropolitan Opera and elsewhere, he has been largely known as a symphonic conductor. Gustavo Dudamel, Superstar Conductor, Will Lead Paris Opera 2021-04-16T04:00:00Z

It’s safe to assume that they, some singers and the society’s musicians, led by the guest conductor Carlos Ágreda, will make operatic excerpts blend in easily with the series’s usual orchestral fun. 9 Things to Do With Your Kids in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z

Seattle Symphony President and CEO Simon Woods observes: “It’s very unusual for a conductor to garner this kind of connection with our musicians, our staff, and our community. He’s very engaging, and he’s deeply musical.” Seattle Symphony picks Thomas Dausgaard to succeed Ludovic Morlot as music director 2017-10-03T04:00:00Z

Mr. Langrée hasn’t enlivened Mostly Mozart with only guest conductors; he has also brought in major orchestras. Guests Artists Enliven the Mostly Mozart Festival 2019-08-05T04:00:00Z

Phil associate conductor, was back at the Bowl, exactly one month before she begins her potentially historic tenure as music director of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Mirga's majestic moments at the Bowl before her big one in Birmingham 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z

On “Franklin and Bash” I played the man who knows everything, and now I’m a conductor on “Mozart in the Jungle.” Malcolm McDowell on the appeal of villainy: ” We’re all looking at Trump now. He’s fun. No wonder they write about him all the time.” 2017-01-31T05:00:00Z

The conductor, who has a vacation home near the village, said the Accademia Monteverdi came about by chance. In Transit Blog: At Monteverdi Tuscany, a Celebration of the Composer 2014-03-17T18:14:46Z

The M stands for mind, and Ms. Smith is her train’s conductor. Patti Smith, Survivor 2015-10-03T04:00:00Z

On opening night Michael Christie, the conductor, drew consistently exciting work from the St. Louis Symphony members in the pit; a few rough patches will no doubt be smoothed over as the production settles in. Music Review: ?Klinghoffer? Returns, to Be Debated Anew 2011-06-17T22:32:42Z

Even though she was the only "conductor" on rescue missions, she depended on a few houses connected with the Underground Railroad for shelter. Harriet Tubman: Biden revives plan to put a Black woman of faith on the $20 bill 2021-02-06T05:00:00Z

LACO’s board of directors gave the conductor free rein to program his farewell season. Jeffrey Kahane to end 20-year run as LACO conductor with his most ambitious project: a festival devoted to tolerance 2016-09-09T04:00:00Z

The lesson is that a young, camera-ready conductor, even a very gifted one, means little without a youthfully adventurous orchestra that engages its community. Critic’s Notebook: Andris Nelson Is Latest of Orchestras’ Young Leaders 2013-05-19T21:50:33Z

There was a piano concerto, too, Bartók's First, offering a rare opportunity to hear the pianist, conductor and composer Zoltán Kocsis as a soloist. LSO/Ad?s 2010-06-09T21:31:00Z

It’s sort of the job of the assistant conductor to be at the rehearsals and learn the repertory. Surprise, You’re About to Conduct the New York Philharmonic! 2017-02-10T05:00:00Z

Mena, principal conductor of the BBC Philharmonic and a regular guest conductor of all the top U.S. orchestras, projects quiet authority, with little posturing and clear anticipatory gestures for the musicians. BSO at Strathmore: A confident, open-hearted guest conductor 2015-09-27T04:00:00Z

Isabelle Faust, a dynamic German violinist who last played here in 2009, will join the orchestra and Danish guest conductor Thomas Dausgaard in a performance of Schumann's Violin Concerto in D minor. Violinist Isabelle Faust to appear with Seattle Symphony 2011-10-26T20:02:04Z

In some ways, the delicacy of the musical direction by Harry Bicket, who took over the reins as Santa Fe Opera’s chief conductor this summer, made the stage production seem only more overreaching. Santa Fe Opera Sets ‘Fidelio’ in a Concentration Camp 2014-08-03T04:00:00Z

The conductor coaxing such sinuous and sometimes vehement sounds out of the Washington National Opera Orchestra is a woman, Jane Glover, making an assured company debut. Review | Strong women take the lead in Washington National Opera’s ‘Alcina’ 2017-11-05T04:00:00Z

Here orchestra and conductor sounded on a firm footing. Baltimore Symphony goes waltzing without the usual partners 2015-03-23T04:00:00Z

Byron Belt described her in The Long Island Press as “certainly one of the outstanding women conductors of our day.” Fiora Corradetti Contino, Opera Maestra, Dies at 91 2017-03-15T04:00:00Z

This was the conductor the Philharmonic had chosen to follow Bernstein? Recalling Pierre Boulez, a Conductor-Composer With an Ear to the Alternative 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z

His early signal successes as an orchestral conductor included a Mozart symphony series with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Conductor and Early-Music Specialist, Dies at 86 2016-03-06T05:00:00Z

But the playing was polished, lucid and natural, the work of a conductor with no need to prove himself with inflated intensity. Review: At 95, a Conductor Is Still Showing New Facets 2023-02-03T05:00:00Z

Given Mr. Petrenko’s stature — in 2019 he becomes the chief conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic, one of the classical world’s storied positions — it was incredible that this was his Carnegie Hall debut. Review: An Ecstatic ‘Rosenkavalier’ Introduces a Conductor to Carnegie 2018-03-30T04:00:00Z

Now he is chief conductor of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, and one of the sought-after talents in the musical world. Andris Nelsons 2010-06-05T23:05:00Z

“I am not one who fits in with the usual way of doing things. I don’t think I’m a good guest conductor for a conventional orchestra; it’s not me.” Ivan Fischer, conductor and radical, brings his Budapest Festival Orchestra to D.C. 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z

The subscription season’s roster of guest conductors includes significant names, but they are conducting only two works by living composers, one from 1988 and the other from 1966: semi-new new music, at best. Music: A Call for More New Music From New York Philharmonic 2012-01-06T17:00:00Z

If you’re playing a conductor, you want to get on a train. Passing the Torch: Denzel Washington and Michael B. Jordan 2018-04-19T04:00:00Z

Carnegie provided an answer on Wednesday evening, presenting the Russian National Orchestra under Mikhail Pletnev, a conductor of a different stripe. Review: Russian National Orchestra Plays Borodin and Prokofiev 2016-03-03T05:00:00Z

“It’s a phenomenal chance for us to promote classical music,” says the conductor, Christopher Warren-Green, one of the event’s conductors. Perspective | Can Meghan and Harry make you care about Handel? 2018-05-11T04:00:00Z

When the British government tried to ban Strauss’s “Salome” in 1910, the conductor Thomas Beecham appealed successfully and led a London run that was the hottest ticket of the season. Music Review: Huang Ruo?s ?Dr. Sun Yat-Sen? at Le Poisson Rouge - Review 2012-01-12T23:44:28Z

It gained international renown under conductors Leopold Stokowski and Eugene Ormandy and is generally counted among the "Big Five" American orchestras, along with New York, Boston, Chicago and Cleveland. Musicians clamor for answers from Philly Orchestra 2011-04-25T21:08:12Z

Except for appearances by guest conductors, the entire Philharmonic season should be “Gilbert’s Playlist.” Critic?s Notebook: Alan Gilbert and New York Philharmonic?s 2012-13 Season 2012-03-04T23:06:44Z

In his company debut the conductor David Robertson drew a searingly beautiful performance from the inspired orchestra and impressive cast. Music Review: Love Beats Science in a Spoof by Menotti 2011-08-14T22:00:12Z

On the evidence of his annual “Messiah,” Julian Wachner is a vital, urgent conductor of Handel, so Trinity’s new Handel Project is to be welcomed. Classical Music in NYC This Week 2017-03-02T05:00:00Z

And the curiosities of the Brahms stemmed in no small part from the conductor. Review | Lithe Brahms in an unexpected debut 2018-03-15T04:00:00Z

Wilkins, who became American Ballet Theatre’s music director in 2005, is too modest to say this, so I shall: Ballet conductors are the hidden heroes of the art form. In ballet, conductors are the dancers’ guardian angels 2020-04-28T04:00:00Z

But there was nothing staid about these performances, led by the violinist and conductor Jaime Laredo. Review: New York String Orchestra Offers Youthful Energy and a Lush Sound 2015-12-27T05:00:00Z

Most of the audience, of course, didn’t realize that the conductor entering the orchestra pit was returning to work for the first time in a while. Perspective | After a conductor’s injury, an opera in Scotland became a test run for the NSO’s future 2017-09-21T04:00:00Z

Bychkov's approach to the work was almost classical in its restraint; while he's the last conductor to wear his heart on his sleeve, that heart was clearly beating throughout. Prom 56: BBCSO/Bychkov ? review 2011-08-28T14:44:08Z

It wasn’t the only performance over the past week in which an orchestra and conductor were the stars of an opera. When the Orchestra Is the Star of the Opera 2022-03-16T04:00:00Z

The work’s conductor, Anthony Negus, makes it a shattering success. Review: ‘Tristan und Isolde’ Brings Thunder to the Longborough Festival 2015-06-17T04:00:00Z

When asked recently about the differences between men and women conductors, he said: “Zero. … I see a musician.” Conducting’s glass podium: Female music directors are still rare, but the Northwest has nurtured some 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z

But the most valuable revelation of this series was what a dynamic, idiosyncratic Beethoven conductor Mr. Fischer is. Music Review: Ivan Fischer Leads Beethoven Program at Avery Fisher Hall 2010-03-29T21:12:00Z

On Saturday night, conductor Carlos Montanaro, a company favorite, led a large-scale, opulent performance that was beautifully paced, giving the singers plenty of interpretive scope and expertly building the drama. Review: Seattle Opera’s ‘Madame Butterfly’ packs an emotional punch 2017-08-07T04:00:00Z

Logistically, however, coordinating four conductors and four orchestras, with limited rehearsal time, in an imperfect acoustical environment, meant any number of compromises. Stockhausen's 'Carré' revives the genius of the '60s 2016-08-20T04:00:00Z

Besides, when you have the conductor Rob Fisher, overseeing an orchestra with two grand pianos, to execute Rodgers’s most adventurous pre-Hammerstein score, how can there be losers? Theater Review: ‘On Your Toes,’ With Christine Baranski, at City Center 2013-05-09T21:00:33Z

But on this date, when the Ensemble Signal conductor Brad Lubman joins Philharmonic players and a wide range of guest soloists, the music will be presented in Geffen Hall proper. The Philharmonic’s New Season: What We Want to Hear 2023-03-21T04:00:00Z

The concept that a talented conductor, musician, singer, painter, sculptor, etc., is somehow exempt from standards of acceptable behavior is a fantasy of the “culture elite”. With James Levine Fired, Should We Rethink Maestro Worship? 2018-03-13T04:00:00Z

“If you knew what they were listening to as they rolled up to a Shostakovich rehearsal with a great conductor, you’d be surprised,” Mr. Freeman-Attwood said. Classical Crossover for the Win 2016-05-24T04:00:00Z

Pavel Trojan Jr., a festival representative, said in an email that the festival “brings the best symphonic orchestras, ensembles, soloists and conductors to Prague.” Spring Symphonies in Prague 2015-05-18T04:00:00Z

In the cartoon, a fly buzzed around and enraged the conductor, whose limbs became a wild scribble. Wuvwy Music 2015-05-22T04:00:00Z

Old music directors never die, they just become conductors laureate and return every season. Review | Familiarity breeds warmth with Eschenbach and NSO 2019-03-07T05:00:00Z

A Venezuelan conductor and Chinese pianist, the two greatest classical superstars of their generation, played two much-loved Russian symphonic works of the late 19th century. At the Hollywood Bowl, Gustavo Dudamel and Lang Lang do their bit for cultural healing 2016-07-13T04:00:00Z

But that wasn't, of course, to get anywhere near an answer to the question of just what the conductor does up there on the podium. Mystery of the maestros: what are conductors for? 2012-06-01T21:55:13Z

But there was not, in the silence that follows the dying of the sound, the usual game of chicken between an audience raring to applaud and a conductor unwilling to release. A Mighty Generation of Musicians. A Moving Final Chapter. 2023-01-17T05:00:00Z

"The conductor, who really got it in the ear, said he was terrified." Helen Mirren gives noisy drummers a royal rebuke 2013-05-06T14:29:09Z

Picking a music director after a single date tempts fate, and I could not quite sense the chemistry between conductor and an orchestra, which played dutifully some of the time and enthusiastically here and there. Gemma New test-drives the Long Beach Symphony with an interesting, ambitious program 2016-03-06T05:00:00Z

The performance was dedicated to Colin Davis, COG's first conductor, and preceded by the overture to Mozart's Don Giovanni, played in his memory. Alzira – review 2013-06-04T17:20:40Z

Fabio Luisi, the Met’s principal conductor and Mr. Levine’s stand-in, will take over the “Ring” performances except for the last two dates, a May 9 “Siegfried” and a May 12 “Gotterdammerung.” ArtsBeat Blog: James Levine Withdraws Indefinitely From Conducting at the Met 2011-12-09T20:35:56Z

But Rouvali’s imaginative, often spectacular musicality is exceptional even in an era with a number of remarkable young conductors. The next new Finnish star conductor takes the stand in Disney Hall 2016-11-13T05:00:00Z

He later served as principal conductor of the London Philharmonic and the Orchestre de National de France. Kurt Masur, conductor who was a unifying force in a divided Germany, dies at 88 2015-12-19T05:00:00Z

The conductor Fabio Luisi brought insight and adroit technique to Rossini’s ambitious score, drawing fleetness, breadth and refinement from the excellent Met orchestra. Review: A New, Abstract ‘Guillaume Tell’ at the Met Opera 2016-10-19T04:00:00Z

“Chung thinks he is a world-class conductor and Park thinks she is an expert in management. This was a scandal waiting to happen because the two obviously did not respect each other.” Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra Racked by Infighting 2015-03-22T04:00:00Z

He's a famous conductor; she's jealous and protective of their relationship. Strauss's Intermezzo: Scottish Opera whip up a perfect storm in a teacup 2011-03-24T22:30:01Z

The conductor David Robertson led an ensemble more lithe than plush. Review: Santa Fe Opera Offers ‘The Daughter of the Regiment,’ ‘Rigoletto’ and ‘Salome’ 2015-08-07T04:00:00Z

The greatest Verdi conductor of our time was on fire, and so were the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Chorus in this concert performance. Triumphant 'Otello' marks Muti's return to CSO 2011-04-08T16:30:00Z

But ask a conductor about the concerto, and you’ll probably learn something quite different. Perspective | The best way to understand a Beethoven concerto? From a musician’s point of view. 2019-02-15T05:00:00Z

My great-uncle on my mother’s side was a Minnesota train conductor on the Dan Patch line, named for a 20th-century harness race horse, which thundered between the Twin Cities and Northfield. A Writing Retreat by Rail, From Paris to the Côte d’Azur 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z

The Met is finalizing next season, he said, and “The best conductors available must be contracted now.” ArtsBeat Blog: James Levine Withdraws Indefinitely From Conducting at the Met 2011-12-09T20:35:56Z

But the Bavarian State Opera, which rarely imports productions from elsewhere, started from scratch, with its own director and conductor. A Master of Winter Writes His First Opera: ‘The Snow Queen’ 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z

There were conductors as great as Bernstein — and pianists, and composers, and political activists, and theater artists. Brash, Confident and Democratic: How Leonard Bernstein Symbolized America 2018-08-23T04:00:00Z

But the usual format, in which the symphonies are offered as the unified vision of a single conductor and orchestra, lacks the out-of-the-box sparkle that today’s taste for high-concept productions demands. Music Review: Ivan Fischer Offers Beethoven at Alice Tully Hall 2010-03-26T20:50:00Z

Susanna Mälkki, 46, is the designated chief conductor of the Helsinki Philharmonic in her native Finland. Chasing a leader: The great music director search 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z

“There’s too much temptation — getting offers, conductors, pieces, colleagues that are unique and special and thrilling,” he said. After 4 Years, Jonas Kaufmann Returns to the Met Opera 2018-10-12T04:00:00Z

It would be hard for even a completely healthy and tireless conductor to hold down these two directorships. For James Levine, Now May Be a Time to Choose 2010-04-12T22:46:00Z

But what was particularly striking was that the two conductors took interpretive approaches to Schoenberg that were poles apart: Mr. Boulez’s readings prized delicacy and transparency; Mr. Barenboim’s, raw power and heft. 2010-02-06T03:18:00Z

He’s a superb theater conductor, in the smallest of small groups of people who really work in the theater.” A Not-Quite-Star Maestro Has a Starry Season at the Met 2022-11-29T05:00:00Z

It felt a little manufactured and a little coltish — until the music built up to a critical mass that let players and the conductor unleash their full energies. Conductor Fisch, National Orchestral Institue excel at the emphatic 2015-06-28T04:00:00Z

He praised the conductors who will replace him. Daniel Barenboim, Star Conductor, Withdraws from ‘Ring’ Cycle in Berlin 2022-08-30T04:00:00Z

Although a great Bartók conductor, Boulez always considered the Hungarian the least important to him of the great 20th century composers. Feeling the sonic rush at the Ojai Music Festival 2015-06-16T04:00:00Z

From Jan. 21 to 25, the Palace will host an Early Music Festival, kicked off by a performance of Bach’s Mass in B Minor led by the conductor Philippe Herreweghe. Performance Guide 2014-12-22T05:00:00Z

“For New York guys my age, the Ronettes were the sex symbols of the era. When she left Phil and came home to her mom, she asked me to be her conductor.” Musicians, friends react to the death of Ronnie Spector 2022-01-12T05:00:00Z

This orchestra and conductor seem truly like colleagues. With James Levine Fired, Should We Rethink Maestro Worship? 2018-03-13T04:00:00Z

The conductor explains that if he aligns himself with one political philosophy or another, then he would be politicizing El Sistema, the Venezuelan music education system that provided Dudamel with his training. Gustavo Dudamel makes his case for keeping quiet on Venezuelan politics 2015-09-29T04:00:00Z

“We are serving the music. If we are starting from this point, there will not be any consideration of whether the conductor is worthy or unworthy.” Daniele Gatti, Creative Risk-Taker, Picks Up Baton at Royal Concertgebouw 2016-09-11T04:00:00Z

A notable exception is “Keeping Score,” a PBS series by the conductor Michael Tilson Thomas and his San Francisco Symphony. All-Star Orchestra Records Series for WNET 2012-08-31T21:48:03Z

It is also beautifully written: recollecting two famous conductors he heard at Leeds Town Hall, Bennett observes that "it is Barbirolli who touches the heart and serves the music, unlike Sargent who merely presents it". Hymn/Cocktail Sticks – review 2012-12-17T17:49:48Z

Indeed, you need not look very far for a shared sensibility among L.A. born and raised conductors, with Michael Tilson Thomas, David Robertson and Leonard Slatkin among the composer’s most devoted and persuasive champions. A different way to experience John Adams' music: Sitting onstage, next to the musicians 2017-02-17T05:00:00Z

For all the praise House attracted, it was also a lightning conductor for varying degrees of opportunistic political and artistic objection. Rachel Whiteread: a life in art 2013-04-06T08:00:40Z

Still, the score should come with a warning to conductors: “This is not as easy as it looks.” Music Review: In Revival of Verdi, a New Note of Drama 2010-03-30T21:48:00Z

In the music world, the Vienna and Berlin Philharmonics are considered the very top rank, able to command the choice conductors and superlative soloists. Vienna Philharmonic purrs back to life after pandemic pause 2020-06-09T04:00:00Z

Happily, there were conductors in the wings who could indeed do better in a widely varied program of music and dance. Critic's Notebook: Mayor Bloomberg Leads City Center Re-Opening Gala 2011-10-26T13:54:06Z

Dausgaard, 53, is chief conductor of the BBC Scottish Symphony and Swedish Chamber orchestras, and as principal guest conductor of the Seattle Symphony, he recently released a riveting recording of Mahler’s Symphony No. 10. L.A. Chamber Orchestra's impressive guest conductor leads homage to Tim Burton, 'A Freak in Burbank' 2016-10-31T04:00:00Z

Mr. Craft spent nearly a quarter-century as Stravinsky’s amanuensis, rehearsal conductor, musical adviser, globe-trotting traveling companion and surrogate son. Robert Craft, Stravinsky Adviser and Steward, Dies at 92 2015-11-14T05:00:00Z

The Los Angeles Philharmonic already knows Denève’s capabilities since he has been a frequent guest conductor here, and they responded well to him again — from what I could hear — Tuesday night at Hollywood Bowl. Hold the light sabers: This is John Williams off the big screen but still substantial at the Bowl 2017-07-26T04:00:00Z

Indeed, perhaps I'm guilty myself by calling that Salome I saw David McVicar's, not conductor Philippe Jordan's – still less Richard Strauss's. Opera reviews: why does no one write about the music? 2011-03-01T12:56:43Z

Throughout, Ms. Dorrance, a brilliant conductor, pushes the boundaries of tap while exposing its true nature: that it is music. Review: At Fall for Dance Festival, Female Power 2015-10-09T04:00:00Z

On Aug. 23, the festival will hold a special day of tribute concerts dedicated to the composer and conductor Pierre Boulez, who turned 90 this year. What's on This Week Around the World 2015-08-14T04:00:00Z

That same year, Mälkki was named the principal guest conductor in Los Angeles, at an orchestra she had first led in 2010. A Conductor Considers Her Future 2021-12-31T05:00:00Z

Harth-Bedoya remained deferential to Ax, yet Ax seemed always ready to follow the conductor. Miguel Harth Bedoya and L.A. Phil have special chemistry 2015-01-23T05:00:00Z

Besides the conductor steeped in the European symphonic tradition, there was the teacher who introduced millions to "classical" music through his Young People's Concerts and television programs. Symphony's tribute to Leonard Bernstein is a festival high note 2010-06-25T18:35:00Z

Others affiliated with the production, including the conductor, want garments of their own. A Good Yarn About Those ‘Carousel’ Costumes 2018-05-23T04:00:00Z

He will not be the first Dutch conductor to lead the Philharmonic. New York Philharmonic Taps Jaap van Zweden as Its Next Maestro 2016-01-27T05:00:00Z

Though he could probably be guest conductor of almost any orchestra in the world, he seems likely to do things his own way. Simon Rattle is to leave Berlin: what next for him and the Philharmoniker? 2013-01-10T16:20:19Z

The brilliant conductor David Robertson led a pulsing, nuanced and colorful account of this complex score. John Adams’s ‘Death of Klinghoffer’ at the Metropolitan Opera 2014-10-21T04:00:00Z

He always wanted me to become a conductor. Oliver Knussen: 'It never occurred to me that not everybody thought music was the most important thing in life' 2012-06-06T16:50:00Z

That makes sense: he is a keyboardist and conductor, and for most of the music in these concerts, those roles would have been anachronistic. Music Review: Early Music New York With Frederick Renz - Review 2011-12-26T22:37:30Z

The conductor urged us to pronounce each percussive syllable and not let the tempo drag. A Choir Finds a Way to Sing. Just Ignore the Steering Wheel. 2020-10-07T04:00:00Z

Seattle Symphony fans vividly remember the 2015 Sibelius Festival, when principal guest conductor Thomas Dausgaard conducted all seven Sibelius symphonies with the kind of audience response you usually see in championship sports events. Thomas Dausgaard leads Seattle Symphony in another excellent Sibelius program with ‘Kullervo’ 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z

Their tutus flipped back and their feet looked like duck feet; they all stared at the conductor. A ‘Dancey-Dance’ From a Choreographer of the Everyday 2019-03-26T04:00:00Z

In a career that saw Bartoletti conduct into his 80s, he served as the first music director of Chicago's Lyric Opera, starting as guest conductor there in 1956, when he was relatively unknown. Italian maestro dies in Florence, famed in Chicago 2013-06-09T15:23:09Z

Four men have stepped forward to accuse the conductor of abuse three or more decades ago when they were in their teens or 20s. On the Met's James Levine, and the age-old debate of separating the art from the artist 2017-12-21T05:00:00Z

With the sensitivity of an opera conductor who loves his singers, Nelsons consistently scaled the orchestra’s sound to his soloists’ resources. The Boston Symphony Finds Surprises and Strengths in New Music 2023-04-26T04:00:00Z

Happily, though, Volkov's subsequent role as the orchestra's principal guest conductor has seen him return regularly, bringing both novelty and variety. This week's new live music 2012-05-25T23:05:17Z

For generations after Schumann’s death, his symphonies were considered flawed by thick, poor orchestration, so much so that some conductors fixed, as they saw it, the problems. Simon Rattle Conducts Schumann With Berlin Philharmonic 2014-10-07T04:00:00Z

Plus a few wise words and a demo from conductor Sir Mark Elder. TV review: Maestro at the Opera 2012-05-19T07:00:01Z

In May he will introduce a second Tectonics festival in Glasgow, where he is the principal guest conductor of the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Critic’s Notebook: Ilan Volkov’s Tectonics Festival in Reykjavik, Iceland 2013-04-23T21:48:02Z

No figure in classical music is more iconic than the conductor, or more misunderstood. Perspective | What does a conductor do, anyway? A music critic lays it out. 2019-10-01T04:00:00Z

“Rouvali’s imaginative, often spectacular musicality,” he writes, “is exceptional even in an era with a number of remarkable young conductors.” Essential Arts & Culture: An immigration musical, self portraits fusing black and white, getting gender-bendy 2016-11-18T05:00:00Z

A renowned Russian pianist and conductor arrested on child sex charges returned to Thailand for a court hearing Monday, honoring the terms of his controversial release on bail that allowed him to leave the country. Russian pianist back to Thai court on sex charge 2010-07-19T12:46:00Z

Among the most frequently mentioned names are Susanna Malkki, 52, the chief conductor of the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, and Mirga Grazinyte-Tyla, 35, who leads the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra in Britain. Top Orchestras Have No Female Conductors. Is Change Coming? 2021-09-10T04:00:00Z

While utterly respectful of the scores, he plays with such spontaneity that these familiar staples seem newly astonishing, qualities equally conveyed by Mr. Belohlavek, the Czech-born chief conductor of the Symphony, and his inspired players. Recordings: Mixing Urgency and Relaxation 2010-09-25T21:04:00Z

And had I chosen to be a conductor, a good part of my most active sensual years would have been spent in, shall we say, virtual seclusion.” Ernest Fleischmann, Impresario of Los Angeles, Dies at 85 2010-06-16T05:24:00Z

It was very important for me to strip down the stereotypes of what a conductor is: the image of that authoritarian character belittling the musicians, who are quaking in fear and reverence. A New Film Shines a Light on Women Conductors 2023-06-03T04:00:00Z

Often likened to a conductor, Domènech knew how to get the best performance from the sculptors, ceramicists and woodworkers who executed his designs. Cultured Traveler: Barcelona?s Other Architect, Dom?nech 2010-12-21T21:13:48Z

Though Mr. Masur was by all accounts not a member of the Communist Party, his prowess as a conductor gained him great favor with its leadership. Kurt Masur Dies at 88; Conductor Transformed New York Philharmonic 2015-12-19T05:00:00Z

Marin Alsop took over as principal conductor of the São Paulo Symphony in March this year, charged with the task of turning it into a world-class orchestra. Prom 45: São Paulo Symphony Orchestra/Alsop – review 2012-08-16T11:18:13Z

Zhang is one of a small number of Asian female conductors leading major ensembles. Asians Are Represented in Classical Music. But Are They Seen? 2021-07-21T04:00:00Z

Throughout the performance of “The Blind,” the singers and the conductor Julian Wachner move around the room; his aim is to keep everyone on key. ‘The Blind,’ Lera Auerbach’s Opera, Confronts Isolation 2013-07-05T17:16:44Z

The Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra in Amsterdam, considered by some to be the leading orchestra in the world, announced Thursday that it is terminating its relationship with its chief conductor, Daniele Gatti. Leading orchestra dismisses conductor Gatti after harassment allegations 2018-08-02T04:00:00Z

We spent the afternoon at the conductor’s house, playing the harpsichord and talking about music. ‘I couldn’t deal with it, it tore me apart’: surviving child sexual abuse 2019-02-01T05:00:00Z

It barely mentions the Underground Railroad, whose conductors were both Black and white, and shortchanges the longtime abolitionist editor William Lloyd Garrison, depicting him largely as a purveyor of the inevitable progress myth. A Landmark Reckoning With America’s Racial Past and Present 2021-11-15T05:00:00Z

“First I was asked to conduct Handel all the time,” Stutzmann recalled, “and I said, ‘I’m sorry, I love Handel, but I’m not a Baroque conductor.’ Nathalie Stutzmann Ushers In a New Era at the Atlanta Symphony 2022-10-05T04:00:00Z

“I got the fire for being a conductor, or professional musician,” he said. A Conductor Whose Worship Stands Apart 2010-02-19T16:42:00Z

But no matter how thick the orchestra textures, the conductor made adequate space for Aimard’s illuminating French clarity and precision. Beethoven speaks, boldly, with help from a French pianist in his Hollywood Bowl debut 2017-09-01T04:00:00Z

Usually, a conductor and a soloist with interpretive discrepancies manage to “get together by persuasion or charm or even threats to achieve a unified performance,” he said. For Glenn Gould, Form Followed Fingers 2010-09-25T21:04:00Z

This will solve your problem, while confirming what your hosts already believe: namely, that being stuck-up is a professional prerequisite to being a great pianist and opera conductor. Perspective | Miss Manners: Pianist wants to enjoy gala, not become its entertainment 2018-09-27T04:00:00Z

There has also been speculation about Dudamel as a successor to Simon Rattle, conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic, which many consider the world's best orchestra. Gustavo Dudamel and L.A. Philharmonic agree to contract extension 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z

And, in true operatic fashion, its telling is equally dependent on a conductor’s momentum, and actorly, complex expression from the singers. The Pains and Privileges of Staging Mozart’s ‘Don Giovanni’ 2023-04-29T04:00:00Z

Last summer, Feinstein leaped into conducting an orchestra for the first time, as principal conductor of the Pasadena Pops. Michael Feinstein is keeping the standards alive 2014-05-31T04:00:00Z

Does the steady stream of guest conductors drive orchestra members a little crazy? Search for Gerard Schwarz's successor at SSO is a broad-ranging and discreet one 2010-05-21T22:07:00Z

Mr. Dutoit, the principal conductor of the Philadelphia Orchestra, accompanied the soloists and the Tanglewood Festival Chorus, which was in good form with supple, flexible phrasing. Music Review: Tanglewood?s Season Opens With Good Friends Like Verdi and Bellini 2011-07-10T21:36:09Z

The practice is a rarity at the Met, until now the exclusive province of guest conductors. Old-Fashioned Approach to Met?s New ?Don Giovanni? 2011-10-09T03:45:05Z

Early video recordings highlight his beautiful tone, remarkable technique and soulful artistry, often heard in collaboration with eminent musicians like the Dutch keyboard player and conductor Gustav Leonhardt. Frans Brüggen, Pioneer in Early Music, Dies at 79 2014-08-25T04:00:00Z

“He became the first classical music television star. He proved an inspired educator and first-rate pianist. He was the first internationally esteemed conductor everyone, whether you knew him or not, called by the familiar Lenny.” Essential Arts & Culture: Leonard Bernstein at 100, MLK tribute, peeling back the White House facade 2018-01-13T05:00:00Z

It is billed as a tribute to Pierre Boulez, the 90-year-old French composer and conductor known for his experiments in electronic music. What's on This Week Around the World 2015-11-27T05:00:00Z

There was little question Saturday that Long Beach could use a conductor like New. Gemma New test-drives the Long Beach Symphony with an interesting, ambitious program 2016-03-06T05:00:00Z

The guest roster will bring a mixture of familiar and new faces, including the eminent Polish composer and conductor Krzysztof Penderecki, in a rare U.S. appearance. Summertime, and there's music for everyone in Grant Park 2011-03-02T22:26:00Z

After decades of attending orchestra concerts, I’m still impressed when a conductor is able not only to jump in on short notice, but also confidently to take on a program planned by others. Review: A Surprise Conductor Makes a Superb Debut 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z

He appeared to be transported as he played and sometimes conducted the orchestra along with the evening's guest conductor, James Gaffigan. Pianist Yundi adds some flair, but his Beethoven still lacks drama at Bowl 2015-08-07T04:00:00Z

He is, Borda, said, “a conductor very much on the rise.” A Conductor Who Knows His Way Around a Score, and a Farm 2022-07-29T04:00:00Z

Their score, nimbly handled by the conductor John Kennedy and the Spoleto Festival USA Orchestra, is a melting pot inspired by bluegrass, hymns, spirituals and more, with nods to traditions from Africa and Islam. At the Spoleto Festival, Opera Is an Act of Liberation 2022-05-30T04:00:00Z

Similarly, every conductor employs a singular style, but all want to elicit as great a performance as possible. Breaking Conductors? Down by Gesture and Body Part 2012-04-06T12:00:28Z

Since Monteux’s landmark, there have been more performances and recordings, especially from Francophile conductors, but the symphony never recovered its omnipresence. What Happened to One of Classical Music’s Most Popular Pieces? 2022-03-18T04:00:00Z

No less an authority than the composer Richard Wagner, also one of the first modern conductors, said the “whole duty of a conductor is comprised in his ability always to indicate the right tempo.” Breaking Conductors? Down by Gesture and Body Part 2012-04-06T12:00:28Z

Her career took off after she won a 2002 competition at Carnegie Hall, became an associate conductor at the New York Philharmonic and took several posts in Europe. New Jersey Symphony’s New Director on Defining Her Own Sound 2016-10-26T04:00:00Z

The concert began with a vanishingly rare sight at the Philharmonic: two women appearing together as concerto soloist and conductor. Review: A Conductor’s Exciting Return to the New York Philharmonic 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z

The smaller but vigorous Orchestra of St. Luke’s is welcoming a new principal conductor, as well: Bernard Labadie, a Canadian maestro known for his detailed, nuanced accounts of the Baroque and Classical repertoire. With Bach and Paul Taylor, Orchestra of St. Luke’s Plans Its Future 2018-09-13T04:00:00Z

The Berlin Philharmonic and its chief conductor, Simon Rattle, will give not one but two major opening-night concerts in New York next fall. Berlin Philharmonic Plans Major Concerts in New York 2013-12-09T21:00:01Z

"He's a lot of everybody — I'm still trying to find the kind of conductor I would like him to be," said the actor by phone from Buenos Aires. 'Mozart in the Jungle' plays it close to home in the classical world 2014-12-23T05:00:00Z

But with a conductor as stellar as Mr. Vanska on the podium, there was still plenty to admire in terms of phrasing and nuance, though I remain to be convinced. Music Review: Rudolf Buchbinder at Mostly Mozart Festival 2012-08-15T22:36:11Z

“There’s a lot of people that think they don’t like that,” says the conductor Dennis Russell Davies, “without knowing what ‘that’ is.” At 80, America’s most famous composer remains a maverick. The man who’s conducted his 11 symphonies talks about why. 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z

“If you know what potential this orchestra has, then as a conductor you want to acknowledge it,” he added with a smile. Meet the New Generation Leading Berlin’s Classical Scene 2018-01-19T05:00:00Z

While absent the last few years, the orchestra is now back and headed up by conductor/composer Hans Zimmer. Seven Things That Will Be Different about This Year?s Oscars Telecast 2012-02-24T12:00:02Z

As a tram conductor, he has a good vantage point from which to do so. Tram conductor gives Tlingit lessons on ride 2014-07-06T04:00:00Z

Under the baton of Arthur Shaw, orchestra director and conductor at Western Washington University, the orchestra will debut in concerts on Thursday and Saturday. New Eastside orchestra debuts Dec. 15 and 17 2011-12-12T23:10:05Z

In the most basic terms, the conductor beats time. Perspective | What does a conductor do, anyway? A music critic lays it out. 2019-10-01T04:00:00Z

Announcing his second five-year contract, the conductor said he was "very glad" to be staying in the so-called Windy City, his "home away from home". Muti to conduct in Chicago until 2020 2014-02-04T11:43:44Z

His three Carnegie programs with the Boston Symphony Orchestra demonstrate a strengthening partnership between conductor and orchestra. 22 Musicals, Plays, Concerts, Dances and Festivals You Can’t Miss This Spring 2018-02-20T05:00:00Z

The young participants – from Russia, Spain, Venezuela, Denmark, Romania, America and Hungary – are already experienced conductors in their own right. A masterclass with Bernard Haitink 2011-08-11T21:30:03Z

And he is unique among modern conductors for his pop-culture celebrity. Gustavo Dudamel, Star Maestro, to Leave L.A. for New York Philharmonic 2023-02-07T05:00:00Z

On April 14 and 15, a contingent of players will appear in front of small audiences at the Shed, 30 blocks south of Lincoln Center, with the conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen. A Pandemic Opportunity: Geffen Hall’s Overhaul Accelerates 2021-04-05T04:00:00Z

In New York, you will perform the Vespers without a conductor for the first time. After a Decade, a Monteverdi Masterpiece Flies Free 2019-12-27T05:00:00Z

The conductor Ludovic Morlot, departing next year as the music director of the thriving Seattle Symphony, began with a bracing account of Smetana’s “Dance of the Comedians.” Review: Man-Made and Natural Music Merge on a Steamy Sunday 2018-07-03T04:00:00Z

It is, she admits, "fortunate that I'm the first case": the celebrated Czech mezzo-soprano's husband happens to be conductor Simon Rattle. Magdalena Ko?en?: 'I'm not scared of the big maestro' 2012-05-16T18:00:01Z

The conductor James Meena drew a surging, plush performance from the City Opera Orchestra. Review: A Good-Enough ‘La Fanciulla del West’ at New York City Opera 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z

Listening to them in sequence does not necessarily increase one’s estimation of the conductor. The Disquieting Power of Wilhelm Furtwängler, Hitler’s Court Conductor 2019-05-02T04:00:00Z

“Master conductor meets brilliant composer,” says the festival’s blurb. Krzysztof Urbanski Leads the Philharmonic in Dvorak 2014-12-05T05:00:00Z

The conductor radiates enthusiasm; watching him bend, twist and seemingly take flight in concerts is much talked about during intermissions. Gustavo Dudamel and L.A. Philharmonic agree to contract extension 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z

"The Little Mermaid" will screen at the Bowl with a live, 71-piece  orchestra and chorus, led by conductor Michael Kosarin, who worked on the 2008 Broadway musical version of the Disney movie. 'The Little Mermaid' at Hollywood Bowl adds second performance 2016-04-08T04:00:00Z

The conductor emphasized that the famous choral movement needs to be experienced as the final destination of an immense journey, one that also takes us into the abyss. Revolution No. 9: Seattle will hear Beethoven’s famed, still-needed work of inclusivity 2017-01-01T05:00:00Z

The Japanese conductor led orchestras in Toronto, San Francisco, Chicago and Boston, where he spent 29 years as music director of the Boston Symphony. George Lucas and Carole King selected for Kennedy Center Honors 2015-07-15T04:00:00Z

By then, Mr. Kaplan had embarked on his unlikely vocation as a globe-trotting conductor of Mahler’s Second Symphony — and only Mahler’s Second Symphony. Gilbert E. Kaplan, Publisher and Improbable Conductor, Dies at 74 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z

Davis may have stepped down as principal conductor of the LSO in 2006, but he must still take much of the credit for the shape the orchestra is in today. The Turn of the Screw – review 2013-04-17T16:39:53Z

Photos are allowed before the conductor takes the podium, but after that, it’s best to have your phone turned off. Seattle Symphony is up for 3 Grammys. Here’s a beginners guide to enjoying the Symphony. 2019-02-06T05:00:00Z

Continues through Jan. 29 with this cast and conductor at the Metropolitan Opera, Manhattan; metopera.org. Review: Amid Omicron, the Met Opera Opens a Weimar ‘Rigoletto’ 2022-01-02T05:00:00Z

There were standing ovations for the orchestra, standing ovations for the conductor, standing ovations for Mark Volpe, the orchestra’s just-retired president and chief executive. Even the Tuning Up Gets an Ovation as Tanglewood Reopens 2021-07-12T04:00:00Z

So here’s a brief look at the function of the conductor. Perspective | What does a conductor do, anyway? A music critic lays it out. 2019-10-01T04:00:00Z

A committee was being formed to find a new conductor, but it was highly unlikely anyone would be in place by next season, Mr. Volpe said. Levine to Leave Boston Symphony 2011-03-02T23:29:59Z

The conductor, who had been perennially overlooked for leadership posts when he worked in the U.S., recently took over La Scala in Milan. Essential Arts & Culture: Deciphering Civil War telegrams, summer of Shakespeare, a conductor's fiery performance 2016-08-20T04:00:00Z

Simon Rattle, the acclaimed British-born conductor, returned to his home country several years ago to lead the London Symphony Orchestra — to fanfare and hopes of a new concert hall. Simon Rattle to Leave the London Symphony for Munich 2021-01-11T05:00:00Z

The conductor was calling their destination – Dwarka – so they handed over their money and stepped on board. Five years after the gang-rape and murder of Jyoti Singh, what has changed for women in India? 2017-12-03T05:00:00Z

And why not, given the conductor Xian Zhang’s tight, decisive reading of Beethoven’s Fourth in the first Alice Tully Hall program? At Mostly Mozart Concerts, Casual Vibes and High Musical Values 2022-08-08T04:00:00Z

Of course, the quartet requires no conductor; in a way, though, Mr. Levine was a presence in that he has nurtured these exemplary musicians as music director of the Met. Review: Met Chamber Ensemble Salutes Boulez With a Less Complicated Piece Than Planned 2015-12-14T05:00:00Z

In other words, Rattle feels he's getting towards the holy grail for all conductors, where there's a direct line between what his hands do and the sound the orchestra makes, without any verbal explanation required. Simon Rattle: Baton charge 2011-02-15T21:30:00Z

Mr. Jansons, 71, will continue in his post as chief conductor of the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra in Munich, where his contract lasts through 2018. ArtsBeat: Mariss Jansons to Resign From Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra 2014-04-22T15:20:14Z

He continued training in Europe and the U.S., where he performed with leading conductors starting in the 1950s. Ivry Gitlis, a violinist who spanned genres, dies at 98 2020-12-25T05:00:00Z

Mr. Shaham was knocked out by an Israel Philharmonic performance of “Spices, Perfumes, Toxins!,” but it was Ms. Shaham, who knew Mr. Dorman’s music through her husband, the conductor David Robertson, who proposed the commission. A Composer Not Afraid to Mash Things Up 2011-04-10T02:00:17Z

Musical leadership at the Met has been in flux in recent years, with Mr. Levine missing two full seasons after suffering a spinal injury and Fabio Luisi coming, and then going, as principal conductor. Yannick Nézet-Séguin to Succeed James Levine as Met Opera’s Music Director 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z

Constructed as a sort of visual operetta, the film begins with a conductor lifting his baton from a podium and ends with him setting it down. DVD: Chopin, Schubert and Dietrich (the Latter Nude) 2011-06-03T17:11:56Z

Ohlsson, who played Beethoven’s famous “Emperor” Concerto on the tour, jokes about following the advice of legendary conductor Bruno Walter: “I smile — but I insist.” Pianist Garrick Ohlsson, a local favorite, is back in Seattle to open the President’s Piano Series 2019-09-17T04:00:00Z

The conductor closed with a straightforward reading of Elgar's "Enigma" Variations. CSO and soloists shine under Dutoit, but Penderecki piece is dull 2011-03-18T17:25:13Z

Other conductors have milked from this work a greater impression of mysticism; Mr. Welser-Möst’s knack is to let Bruckner provide his own best testimony. Music Review: A Chance to Hear Bruckner Anew, by Himself and With an Unexpected Partner 2011-07-18T22:00:36Z

He had already set his heart on a career as a conductor, but she insisted he study as if he were going to be a concert pianist. Born to Conduct: Film charts Met music director’s ascent 2021-07-01T04:00:00Z

All that's required is an appreciation for the director's aptitude for wielding visual chaos with the delight and vigor of an orchestra conductor. Forget "Top Gun." "RRR" is the ultimate summer movie – explosive, inspiring & with catchy dance beat 2022-06-08T04:00:00Z

“But I also look forward to a future where the next generation will be called just ‘conductor.’” San Francisco Opera Names a New Conductor. She’s Making History. 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z

The conductor and pianist Christoph Eschenbach will extend his term as music director of both the National Symphony Orchestra and the Kennedy Center in Washington through 2017, the center announced Monday. ArtsBeat: Eschenbach to Stay as Music Director in Washington Through 2017 2014-03-24T16:46:26Z

He’s the conductor of a symphony of thousands, maybe even millions. Lil Nas X, Clapback Champ 2021-03-30T04:00:00Z

In the center, wielding his knife like a conductor’s baton, stands Mr. Hong, doling out precise, timed portions of exquisite nigiri sourced from across the globe. At Hidden Fish in San Diego, the Dance of the Omakase 2019-01-17T05:00:00Z

She took her position the same year as Mr. Gergiev’s debut with the company and not long before his appointment as its principal guest conductor. Sarah Billinghurst on Her Tenure at the Met 2014-05-09T21:50:45Z

He also found a game partner in the mezzo-soprano Elizabeth DeShong, whose thrilling portrayal of the maid Suzuki sounded energized by the conductor in the final act. Review: ‘Madama Butterfly,’ Without Its Flesh-and-Blood Intensity 2019-10-13T04:00:00Z

“It’s really about him working with these young conductors and imparting his knowledge about his way of conducting,” Ms. Kinzler said. ArtsBeat: Kurt Masur Conducting Seminar Is Postponed 2014-01-17T22:54:27Z

Julian Rachlin, the newly appointed principal guest conductor of the Royal Northern Sinfonia Orchestra, will lead the orchestra through a performance of works from Mozart and Beethoven, at the Barbican in London. Player/conductor role: 'exciting' 2014-11-14T05:00:00Z

It was with his composer and conductor hats on that Gruber made his Seattle Symphony debut on Thursday. Masterful maverick HK Gruber leads thrilling program | Classical review 2013-04-19T16:44:35Z

“We have thousands of male conductors, and there’s good male conductors and bad male conductors and everything in between,” she said. Top Orchestras Have No Female Conductors. Is Change Coming? 2021-09-10T04:00:00Z

Combine all those perspectives, and what results is precisely the kind of slightly quixotic mission to which the conductor has largely devoted his career. Music Review: Franz Schreker Opera Gets Its Chance at SummerScape 2010-08-02T21:57:00Z

This week’s guest conductor is David Robertson, a Santa Monica native, and on Thursday he led exhilarating performances that were news all by themselves. L.A. Phil lives up to the hype with electrifying guest conductor David Robertson 2017-04-21T04:00:00Z

Oramo has done more than any other non-British conductor to spread this message all over the world, but he's also given it back afresh to UK audiences. Sakari Oramo's First Night at the Proms 2013-07-10T17:59:00Z

Not the least pleasure in Denver was that Tchaikovsky’s marvelous score — skillfully paced by the conductor Adam Flatt and sounding good in the modernized, handsome Ellie Caulkins Opera House — was played uncut and without interpolations. Critic's Notebook: Tales Within Tales Create a Tale of Two ?Nutcracker? Productions 2010-12-01T08:00:00Z

He is the conductor who knows Glass’s work better than anyone. At 80, America’s most famous composer remains a maverick. The man who’s conducted his 11 symphonies talks about why. 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z

The conductor David Robertson, a disciple of Pierre Boulez and an unabashed Williams fan, told me that some current London Symphony players first became interested in their instruments after encountering “Star Wars.” Listening to “Star Wars” 2016-01-01T05:00:00Z

Less is always more with this master conductor, who, at 82, wears his elder statesman status with a grace and modesty batonsmiths many years his junior could learn from. Haitink's Mahler 9th makes superb season finale for CSO 2011-06-03T17:59:36Z

He died while on his way to a cardiology appointment, Russell Gloyd, his producer, conductor and manager for 36 years, said. Dave Brubeck, Jazz Musician, Dies at 91 2012-12-05T18:31:41Z

He’s back: After six weeks of guest conductors — including some prominent contenders to succeed him as music director when he leaves in two years — Jaap van Zweden returned to the New York Philharmonic on Thursday. Review: The Philharmonic’s Conductor Returns to His Perch 2022-03-25T04:00:00Z

His former stepfather, Robert Cole, worked as a conductor under the likes of Stravinsky and Bernstein, before taking over the presenting organization Cal Performances. A polymath in D.C.: The long ascendancy of conductor-composer Julian Wachner

In the conductor Kent Nagano, the production has the world’s finest champion of “A Quiet Place,” who several years ago recorded Sunderland’s version and again leads it to brilliant and illuminating effect. Review: A Rescue Operation Salvages Leonard Bernstein’s Final Opera 2022-03-10T05:00:00Z

His career as a conductor and radio director flourished in West Germany, and he played an important role in the dissemination of modern music. When Classical Music Was an Alibi 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z

The native of Lodz, Poland, who wrote and conducted in Berlin before leaving Germany in the 1930s, went on to achieve international acclaim as a conductor but his own musical compositions faded into obscurity. Forgotten work gets Grammy nomination 2011-02-11T18:54:07Z

Once regarded as a cool, undemonstrative conductor, Pletnev's podium manner was involved and involving. Yuja Wang and the Russian National Orchestra perform in Northridge 2016-02-20T05:00:00Z

Fewer people than in the past view the chance to hear a star soloist, rising conductor and orchestra in popular repertoire on a warm summer night as a can’t-miss event. Yuja Wang, NSO play to enthusiastic but small crowd at Wolf Trap 2016-07-10T04:00:00Z

The best approach: Ask a flight attendant or conductor to help. Whose armrest is it, anyway? The unspoken etiquette of airline, bus and train travel. 2017-02-22T05:00:00Z

Some conductors would be content to open an orchestral season with Beethoven's Choral symphony and leave it at that. Philharmonia/Salonen – review 2012-09-28T11:49:31Z

“Folks, slow down, slow down,” a conductor told them. When Truman is your grandpa: The complicated lives of presidential descendants 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z

I broke into a run, but the helpful conductor held the door and we slipped on with no seconds to spare. On a Colorado Ski Trip, Planes, Trains, No Automobiles 2019-03-27T04:00:00Z

Just being in the place where Gustav Mahler enjoyed some of his greatest successes as conductor and composer is a music-historical thrill. Happy 125th birthday, Concertgebouw 2013-04-11T18:11:17Z

He does double-duty as pianist and conductor, drawing impressive playing from the remarkable Mahler Chamber Orchestra. ArtsBeat: Classical Playlist: Beethoven, the Bad Plus, Fred Astaire and More 2014-04-02T16:00:38Z

He will serve as conductor laureate, but the organization remains in no hurry to confirm his successor, four years after he announced that he would leave. A Conductor’s Tumultuous, Invaluable Tenure Ends in Minnesota 2022-06-10T04:00:00Z

Most notably, she started this season as the music director of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra — making her, regrettably, the lone female conductor among the 25 largest American orchestras. Review: At the Philharmonic, a Guest Challenges Common Wisdom 2023-02-23T05:00:00Z

Mr. Noseda, the music director of the Teatro Regio Torino in Italy, will assume the London title next season, joining Daniel Harding, who will remain the orchestra’s other principal guest conductor. Gianandrea Noseda Named London Symphony's Principal Guest Conductor 1456-09-08T05:00:00Z

Mr. Gardiner, one of the few living conductors who has performed and recorded all the sacred cantatas, many of them repeatedly, hatched the notion of a ring. What Does It Mean to Play the ‘Best’ of Bach? 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z

Just two female conductors appear on the schedules of New York’s major instrumental concert programs this season, according to WQXR. Female Conductors Search for Equality at Highest Level 2013-12-20T20:33:48Z

He filled in missing vocal parts, proving at times that he could sing as gruffly as any conductor, though in other stretches the glorious tone of yore seemed almost intact. Celebrated Bass-Baritone Plans a Surprise Debut at Conducting 2015-07-22T04:00:00Z

Domingo is still active as a singer, conductor and administrator — he is general director with the Los Angeles Opera. In wake of harassment allegations against Plácido Domingo, companies step back 2019-08-13T04:00:00Z

“It’s quite something,” says acclaimed conductor Leonard Slatkin, who penned a short essay on Midori for the Honors’ program about his years working with her. Midori’s career started with a fleeting moment. It’s evolved into a lasting legacy. 2021-05-12T04:00:00Z

Berkeley stood by the conductor’s podium like a groom waiting for his bride at the altar. Dogs get a sniff of the stage life with Baltimore Symphony Orchestra’s casting call

Some conductors use fast speeds to heighten expression. Baroque Band ends season with a special performance of Handel 2011-06-03T17:05:20Z

It makes me sick that I’m ever not in my seat when Michael Tilson Thomas raises his baton, because he’s such a good conductor, and I miss hearing orchestral music. Linda Ronstadt Has Found Another Voice 2019-09-01T04:00:00Z

Many conductors draw out the gossamer delicacy and lithe textures of this magical score. Critic’s Notebook: Verdi’s ‘Falstaff’ at the Salzburg Festival 2013-08-06T21:00:31Z

The conductor was Mr. Langrée, who had winning chemistry with the players. Critic’s Notebook: Mostly Mozart Opens With Louis Langrée and Lawrence Brownlee 2012-08-01T21:47:28Z

With Charles Dutoit, the Philadelphia Orchestra’s chief conductor, looking on, Mr. Anderszewski asked for a moment of silence and dedicated the first piece on the program to those who were lost. Music Review: Philadelphia Orchestra Plays Carnegie Hall 2010-04-14T21:59:00Z

The marriage to the conductor lasted 10 years and produced two sons, Stanislaus and Christopher. Gloria Vanderbilt, heiress, jeans queen, dies at 95 2019-06-17T04:00:00Z

I think it’s sort of like being an MC or a conductor and you have to take everything into consideration. A Young Auctioneer Breaks Into the Gavel Clique 2011-10-28T22:42:28Z

The Toronto-born conductor, 61, already juggles music directorships at the Toronto Symphony Orchestra and the Royal Scottish National Orchestra but is scheduled to step down from both posts at the end of this season. L.A. Chamber Orchestra brings Peter Oundjian back to the stand 2017-10-16T04:00:00Z

Dino Anagnost, the longtime conductor of the Little Orchestra Society, the highly regarded New York chamber orchestra that presents concerts for children and adults, died on Wednesday at his home in Manhattan. Dino Anagnost, 67, Dies; Led Little Orchestra Society 2011-04-03T16:31:55Z

Instead she moved in with a man who worked as a bus conductor and drank too much. Deborah Moggach: a life in writing 2013-02-16T07:04:01Z

Ensembles should have a plan for continuing relationships with their assistants as those young conductors move on. Want More Diverse Conductors? Orchestras Should Look to Assistants. 2021-06-04T04:00:00Z

Advertisement Increasingly at concerts and operas, even older audience members check emails and send texts right until the house darkens or the conductor appears. The Concert Hall as Refuge in a Restless, Web-Driven World 2015-09-13T04:00:00Z

Marsh is the second of four guest conductors invited to work with the Consort this season, one of whom will be named successor to the group’s founder, the late Reilly Lewis. Review | Bach Consort goes full-fanfare in a crisp if orchestrally weak “Christmas Oratorio” 2017-12-10T05:00:00Z

This was a reading of the lithe, refreshingly unpompous variety, along the lines familiar from conductors like Pierre Boulez, Igor Markevitch and Stravinsky himself, rather than the weightier manner of a Leonard Bernstein. Stravinsky, other Moderns at symphony 2011-09-30T20:42:03Z

Garner: "Yes, because I was asking for him and I felt like I was the conductor for his nerves." 2010-02-11T17:25:00Z

Those forlorn catcalls, loud but isolated, left barely a dent in the wall of cheers which greeted cast, chorus and conductor Daniele Gatti in a new staging of Verdi's Falstaff at the Royal Opera House. Falstaff; Tallis Scholars ? review 2012-05-19T23:06:20Z

Major acts in this year’s festival include the conductor Andris Nelsons who on Aug. 20 will lead the festival orchestra in Haydn’s Symphony in G Major and Mahler’s Fifth Symphony. What's on This Week Around the World 2015-08-14T04:00:00Z

Jonathan Hepfer, who also served as capable conductor in the other works, found a wealth of interesting effects from dragging a bell across a bass drum. An evening of sophisticated new Spanish music 2015-01-06T05:00:00Z

On the train going home, our conductor, very ill advisedly, said I should definitely take it up as a career. Janet Baker: A life in music 2012-07-13T21:54:02Z

But for all his artistic coups, Mortier hogged the spotlight and thrived on tensions, alienating conductors, directors and the Vienna Philharmonic, and secretly seeking to sideline Rabl-Stadler. After a Quarter-Century, the Queen of Salzburg Calls It Quits 2021-08-17T04:00:00Z

He also serves as music director of the Rotterdam Philharmonic in the Netherlands and as principal guest conductor of the London Philharmonic. Philadelphia Orchestra?s New Leader 2010-06-13T15:42:00Z

“I always loved a symphony orchestra, and as a conductor you can do more. So I thought, Why not?” A Conductor Who Knows His Way Around a Score, and a Farm 2022-07-29T04:00:00Z

In its centennial year, the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra does color about as well as any orchestra around, and conductor Marin Alsop’s programming plays to its strengths. Pianist Leon Fleisher brings energy, clarity to Prokofiev 2016-01-11T05:00:00Z

He is now associate conductor of that ensemble. 'Broadway Rocks' pairs Seattle Symphony with hits from the New York stage 2010-07-08T20:42:00Z

Later Dudamel, who is also the much-fêted chief conductor of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, calls the Scots "our little sons and daughters". Big Noise orchestra's classical music proves instrumental in social change 2012-06-20T19:38:32Z

Nelson conducted it a few times in the 1990s, and for the last seven years he's been SCO's full-time conductor. Seattle Chinese Orchestra helps East meet West in April 20 concert 2012-04-11T22:31:05Z

He's held the post of associate conductor of the San Diego Symphony, and he also studied singing in Berlin with bass-baritone Thomas Quasthoff. At the Hollywood Bowl, breathing life into the most famous symphony ever written 2016-08-24T04:00:00Z

But Slater, his committed and lively young cast and the conductor Douglas Boyd should take credit for trying to make a show suited to the circumstance. Don Giovanni; La bohème; English Music festival – review 2012-06-09T23:06:16Z

They froze in time the animated baton and seemingly infinite expressions of Los Angeles Philharmonic conductor Gustavo Dudamel at the Hollywood Bowl. The arts in 2017: Pictures of the year 2017-12-31T05:00:00Z

Taking on Beethoven’s nine symphonies in a concentrated marathon of concerts has long seemed almost a requisite undertaking for any conductor of stature — the ultimate public statement of artistic gravitas. Berlin Philharmonic’s Beethoven Marathon at Carnegie Prompts Some Head-Scratching 2015-11-16T05:00:00Z

It would be hard to find a greater variety of approaches to “La Mer” than from the great French conductors. The global implications for a Scottish piano concerto based on the Rosary 2017-03-19T04:00:00Z

He was chief conductor twice: for about a year after the 1989 Velvet Revolution, which replaced the Communist government, and again since 2012. Jiri Belohlavek, Czech Conductor, Dies at 71 2017-06-01T04:00:00Z

The festival’s Web site still lists him as the conductor of the production, and Linda Wagentristl, a spokeswoman for the festival, did not seem concerned that he might not be able to perform. ArtsBeat: Conductor, Recovering From Concussion, Is Still Scheduled for ‘Lohengrin’ at Bayreuth 2013-07-26T15:22:21Z

The opening of the Kyrie was fleet and suspenseful, with the conductor Louis Langrée drawing contained urgency from the festival orchestra and the Master Chorale. At Mostly Mozart, a Self-Effacing Magnetism 2016-08-21T04:00:00Z

For them it was fine to hire women as long as they were assistant conductors, especially if they were very good assistants. A Conductor’s Battle With a Classical Music Gender Barrier 2023-03-07T05:00:00Z

The orchestra’s chief conductor, Susanna Mälkki, walked in from the wings, stopping to banter with players as she made her way to the podium. A Conductor Considers Her Future 2021-12-31T05:00:00Z

The composer and conductor Victoria Bond has always devoted her Cutting Edge Concerts series to recent works, but she has tinkered with the format over the years. Music Review: Soundtrack for Bird and Turtle, and Other New Music 2011-03-29T21:48:48Z

“You sing like a conductor,” colleagues used to tell Ms. Hannigan of her musical personality and stage manner, she said in an interview on Sunday. Barbara Hannigan Sings and Conducts at the Lucerne Festival 2014-08-19T04:00:00Z

Earth’s center consists of an inner core of solid iron and an outer core of liquid iron, a strong electrical conductor. What to expect from the Earth’s impending magnetic flip 2014-09-26T04:00:00Z

He did a little informal reconnaissance in June when he was guest conductor with the Buenos Aires Philharmonic. Send 2016 on its way with ‘Four Seasons,’ Seattle Symphony and 2 tango dancers 2016-12-23T05:00:00Z

One of them, a woman, held a banner mocking Gergiev's recent "Hero of Labour" award received from Putin on Wednesday, suggesting the conductor should either pull down the building or hand back the medal. Russia's new Mariinsky theatre woos the doubters 2013-05-02T20:36:35Z

Yet appointing a new conductor, if not quite as tricky as electing a pope or prime minister, is fraught with hazard. Andris Nelsons 2010-06-05T23:05:00Z

An Old Hand at Only 26 The precocious French conductor Lionel Bringuier, all of 26, took the podium at Avery Fisher Hall on Thursday to lead the New York Philharmonic in an impressive program. Music Review: Lionel Bringuier Leads Philharmonic by Himself 2013-06-14T19:16:12Z

Presenting the premiere at Juilliard, Joshua Rifkin, then a student and today a prominent conductor, pianist and musicologist, sang the solo part. Russell Oberlin, Renowned Countertenor, Is Dead at 88 2016-11-29T05:00:00Z

The concertmaster, he explains, serves as a liaison between the conductor and the musicians. Meet Seattle Symphony's new concertmaster 2012-06-18T05:15:12Z

I remember a conducting masterclass when he berated one of the young conductors for working too hard – moving his arms around too much. Sir Colin Davis remembered: 'He worked little miracles' 2013-04-15T18:13:39Z

For the most part that means discrete boosting without interfering with the instrumental balances created by the conductor. The Hollywood Bowl's magicians of sound 2014-08-17T04:00:00Z

Yet the music is full of traps for a conductor, especially when it comes to pacing and rhythmic freedom; give singers too much expressive leeway, and things can easily turn flaccid. Review: In Her Met Debut, a Conductor Leads a Fresh ‘La Bohème’ 2021-11-10T05:00:00Z

Ravel is, in Tortelier’s own words in past interviews, the composer closest to this conductor’s heart. Review | Yan Pascal Tortelier and the NSO find their own voices in ‘Daphnis et Chloé’ 2021-10-29T04:00:00Z

Since then, the Concertgebouw has been led by guest conductors, who inevitably attracted speculation, if scrutiny. Klaus Mäkelä, 26, Takes Podium at Storied Concertgebouw Orchestra 2022-06-10T04:00:00Z

You wrote that you worked with only two female orchestra conductors in your entire career. ArtsBeat: Jessye Norman Talks About ‘Stand Up Straight and Sing!’ 2014-05-06T16:27:37Z

Next summer a new roster of players will work with the conductor David Robertson. Music Review: National Youth Orchestra Takes Purchase; Washington Is Next 2013-07-12T21:08:59Z

Authorities have voiced intentions to crack down on such offenses, and the conductor's July 6 arrest is one of the most prominent cases to date. Russian pianist back to Thai court on sex charge 2010-07-19T12:46:00Z

Since the Mariinsky’s responsiveness to music was already looking lax in the late Soviet era, a great conductor’s guiding hand might have been just what the doctor ordered. Review: Mariinsky Ballet in ‘Raymonda,’ Searching About for a Perfect Suitor 2016-02-24T05:00:00Z

Rouvali, one of a full lineup of conductors accompanying Wang in the coming months as she tours with the work, which premiered in San Francisco in October, matches her clean, objective style. Review: A Philharmonic Contender Returns to the Podium 2023-01-06T05:00:00Z

His mother became an opera conductor, and in 1991 she moved, with her son, to the provincial town of Laupheim, to conduct a nearby orchestra. Books of The Times: How Yascha Mounk Grew Up a ‘Stranger in My Own Country’ 2014-01-14T21:22:09Z

At intermission, the conductor, David Newman, introduced actors and people associated with the movie. ArtsBeat Blog: Spotting a Few Sharks and Jets at New York Philharmonic's 'West Side Story' 2011-09-08T16:16:20Z

Without that clarity and tautness, the performance relaxed into an all-too-common spectacle: a black singer performing spirituals alongside a white conductor and an overwhelmingly white orchestra in front of an overwhelmingly white audience. Music Review: American Hymns, Both Classic and Reimagined 2011-05-11T20:49:08Z

At breaks, he rushed down the aisle to the pit to confer with the leader of any sitzprobe: the conductor. Yannick Nézet-Séguin Is New York’s Conductor Now 2021-11-19T05:00:00Z

Sir Simon will step down as chief conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra in 2018. Rattle returns for London residency 2013-12-05T15:42:44Z

Time reported that guest conductors referred to its “undisciplined and arrogant members as ‘the Dead End Kids.’” The Conductor Who Whipped American Orchestras Into Shape 2021-05-14T04:00:00Z

Given Mr. Boulez’s eminence as both composer and conductor, the festival decided that two people were needed to succeed him at the academy. The Lucerne Festival’s Ultimate Remake: Itself 2016-09-07T04:00:00Z

Even so, many conductors find even melancholic anger, or aggressive sadness, or manic-depressive whatever even in the Finale. Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla shows why she's moving up in latest L.A. Phil show at Disney Hall 2015-12-11T05:00:00Z

The New York Philharmonic deal is unrelated to the Lincoln Center venture and stems partly from the energies of the conductor Long Yu, a central figure in the Chinese classical music scene. New York Philharmonic and Shanghai Symphony Become Partners 2012-11-14T03:00:00Z

Mahler. Mahler’s last three completed symphonies got profound performances by conductors who have shown astonishing growth since their early days conducting the L.A. The best classical music performances of 2016 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z

The second is to harness the power of aluminum, a fantastic conductor of heat. How to Cook and Freeze a Large Piece of Meat, and Eat for Weeks 2020-05-04T04:00:00Z

And it's only in the late 19th century that the professional conductor, as opposed to the composer- or pianist-conductor, was taken seriously as a vocation in musical life. Mystery of the maestros: what are conductors for? 2012-06-01T21:55:13Z

Women also made gains on the podium: About 24 percent of conductors are now women, the report said, nearly double the share in 2013-14. U.S. Orchestras Gradually Diversify but Are Slow to Hire Black Musicians 2023-06-16T04:00:00Z

Certainly the textures shone in the performance Danish guest conductor Thomas Dausgaard drew from the symphony. Dausgaard brings distinguished interpretation to Sibelius' Fifth with the Symphony 2010-03-26T18:22:00Z

The program looked daft but interesting: one orchestra, one conductor, three pianists, all five of Prokofiev’s piano concertos. Prom Math: One Night, Five Prokofiev Concertos 2015-07-29T04:00:00Z

The Washington Ballet Orchestra, led by guest conductor Charles Barker, sounded thin in spots and needs stronger brass. Review | The Washington Ballet awakens with a lavish, triumphant ‘Sleeping Beauty’ 2019-03-01T05:00:00Z

But the biggest cheers rang out for the conductor Edward Gardner and the orchestra, a response that matched mine. Music Review: Britten’s ‘Billy Budd’ at the English National Opera 2012-06-25T22:16:47Z

“It’s exactly the same story,” says Ryan Brown, the founder, conductor and artistic director of Opera Lafayette, of the Gaveaux piece. Perspective | Strong woman confronts unjust ruler — opera tells, and retells, the story 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z

Matthew Aucoin, then a freshman and now a composer and conductor, was struck by “not just his voice of enviable lushness and uncanny power but all the things he was undertaking.” At 29, this 'El Niño' singer is the buzz of California's opera world 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z

An exciting new recording — a live performance in vivid sound — couples the brilliant, searching American cellist Zuill Bailey with the fine conductor Grant Llewellyn and the North Carolina Symphony. ArtsBeat: Classical Playlist: Zuill Bailey, Natasha Paremski, Leon Kirchner and More 2014-01-29T17:18:51Z

In San Diego on Sunday afternoon, Karina Canellakis was the guest conductor in Copley Symphony Hall to usher in the San Diego Symphony's "Upright & Grand," a citywide piano festival sponsored by the orchestra. Mark Swed hits the road for a weekend of SoCal orchestra listening 2016-01-13T05:00:00Z

The art of the ballet conductor is a rare one. Dance Review: Kaplow?s Farewell at New York City Ballet 2010-06-25T22:14:00Z

The Bizet selections made this clear enough, allowing conductor and orchestra a chance to limber up through some of the composer’s most aggressively lovely short works. Review | Yan Pascal Tortelier and the NSO find their own voices in ‘Daphnis et Chloé’ 2021-10-29T04:00:00Z

She did months of research to prepare, she said, reading about Beethoven’s deafness and listening to early recordings by the Austrian conductor Clemens Krauss. She’s Making History in Opera. Can She Help Ensure Its Future? 2021-10-19T04:00:00Z

New Jersey’s current associate conductor, Gemma New, is also a woman, showing the institution’s admirable commitment to this issue. Classical Music This Week: Stops in Detroit, New Jersey and Berlin 2015-11-18T05:00:00Z

But Dudamel has shown an exceptional deepening as a conductor, and the biggest change has occurred since the beginning of the year. After five years of Gustavo Dudamel, what's next? 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z

His abrupt departure is unusual in the classical music industry, where conductors generally serve the duration of their contracts and seasons are typically planned years in advance. Gustavo Dudamel, Star Maestro, to Resign From Paris Opera 2023-05-25T04:00:00Z

Whatever the longueurs of the evening, it was good to see the Met engage Rattle, who is chief conductor and artistic director of the Berlin Philharmonic. Simon Rattle leads 'Pelleas' in Met debut 2010-12-18T18:31:05Z

New Generation Greets the Complexities of the Past Charles Ives’s Symphony No. 4, performed recently by the New York Philharmonic, features music of such metrical complexity that two conductors are often used to keep order. Music Review: American Soundscapes Ensemble at Carnegie Hall 2013-04-29T20:31:54Z

Stéphane Denève is a conductor with a sharp eye for grand dramatic gestures, but his ear for the finer details is not always so sure. Philharmonia/Den?ve 2010-04-11T20:50:00Z

The Danish National Symphony Orchestra, who have just recorded the work with conductor Thomas Dausgaard, were faultless advocates. The Rake's Progress; BBC Prom 35; Three Choirs festival 2010-08-14T23:05:00Z

Shortly after beginning her first season as assistant conductor of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra four years ago, Karina Canellakis got one of those big breaks. After a Last-Minute Conducting Triumph, Her Own Orchestra 2018-05-09T04:00:00Z

There's a roughness to the strings and a fuzziness to the brass, and conductor Christian Vásquez's phrasing favours the four-square over the fancy free. Teresa Carre?o Youth Orchestra of Venezuela ? review 2010-10-13T08:12:00Z

On Thursday, the conductor Long Yu, a major figure in China, takes the podium for a program offering Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto, with the acclaimed violinist Maxim Vengerov, and Shostakovich’s Fifth Symphony. Opera & Classical Music Listings for Jan. 16-22 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z

That led to a job as artistic director and chief conductor of the Tonkünstler Orchestra in Vienna. Fabio Luisi Is to Be Met Opera?s Principal Guest Conductor 2010-04-27T21:07:00Z

Music lovers hear different soloists, conductors and orchestral configurations, and even different “Messiahs”: usually several of the oratorio’s 53 movements — choruses, solos, recitatives — are cut, for reasons of length. Seattle Symphony audiences have never heard a ‘Messiah’ production quite like this season’s 2018-12-10T05:00:00Z

Then the conductor Marin Alsop offered a word of warning after one of the women she was coaching at a master class here made a delicate flourish while leading the orchestra. Cracking a Glass Ceiling With the Maestro’s Baton 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z

On occasion, the conductor announces the upcoming show. Ashland’s gift to train travelers: a holiday light spectacular along the tracks 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z

At the end, he hops on to the conductor's podium and, beaming at his rapt pupils, demonstrates that the difference between playing music and performing it is passion. LA takes baton as flagship for youth orchestras 2011-11-13T16:03:17Z

That imaginary body of sound sits in front of the conductor, between the chest and the hands, he added. Breaking Conductors? Down by Gesture and Body Part 2012-04-06T12:00:28Z

As she began to play, she glanced past the conductor to the screen showing the film for synchronization. An Adagio for Strings, and for the Ages 2010-03-05T19:18:00Z

The audience don't actually see the orchestra or the conductor. The battle for?Bayreuth 2010-08-23T20:46:00Z

About to turn 47 later this month, he has few major orchestras with which he has yet to make his debut as a conductor. Getting to know — or at least trying to — Matthias Pintscher at an L.A. Phil concert 2018-01-07T05:00:00Z

On Tuesday night the conductor Alan Gilbert and the Philharmonic did perform, however, and a surprisingly large audience was in the hall. Music Review: The Tried and the True Step in After the Storm 2010-12-29T22:05:42Z

He also said he considered the conductor a noteworthy choice for Berlin, an orchestra with complicated dynamics that can seem to require deft political leadership. Berlin Philharmonic Selects Kirill Petrenko to Succeed Simon Rattle 2015-06-22T04:00:00Z

Under the new policy, conductors were told “to open doors only enough wide for riders to retreat—not wide enough for them to board,” the Wall Street Journal reported. MTA officials say New York City subway riders are partly to blame for delays 2018-09-22T04:00:00Z

But I wouldn’t have predicted, from my prior impressions of him as a competent but not necessarily vibrant conductor, that he’d have the stuff to bring the NSO to heel. The NSO starts its regular season with a promising debut 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z

One passage resembled a conductor reigning in a cacophonous symphony. Dance Review: Parsons Dance Celebrates Its 30th Anniversary 2014-01-19T22:21:59Z

This year he was named associate guest conductor of the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Early-music maverick Andrew Manze makes guest appearance with SSO 2010-04-28T22:16:00Z

A conductor as connoisseur of fine lines, Denève tempered enthusiastic wildness with a sense of poetry, might with a feeling for the distinct personality of orchestral sections and, indeed, discrete instruments. The global implications for a Scottish piano concerto based on the Rosary 2017-03-19T04:00:00Z

Principal guest conductor Thomas Dausgaard conducted a program that included Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto with soloist Pekka Kuusisto, as well as new work by Helen Grime and Carl Nielsen’s Symphony No. 3. Review: At Seattle Symphony, a winning night from opener to encore 2017-06-09T04:00:00Z

As a conductor, he preferred to sit at the piano, giving occasional cues but mostly allowing the music to form itself. Purple hazer: the many lives of Gil Evans 2012-11-07T18:07:54Z

He may well be joining Leopold Stokowski as the two greatest nonagenarian conductors of all time. Ageless Neville Marriner leads the Colburn Orchestra 2015-01-19T05:00:00Z

An uncommonly versatile musician, Fischer worked as a composer, arranger, conductor and pianist for more than 60 years. Grammy-winning composer Clare Fischer dead at 83 2012-01-28T03:52:08Z

The New York presence here will continue next summer, when the artist in residence is Alan Gilbert, who will represent his native city as conductor, violinist and violist. Music Review: Santa Fe Celebration Includes New York 2011-08-12T22:22:50Z

The conductor was sentenced to three years and nine months in prison. ‘I couldn’t deal with it, it tore me apart’: surviving child sexual abuse 2019-02-01T05:00:00Z

A frequent collaborator with the conductor, Arturo Toscanini, she recorded regularly for the record label, RCA Victor. Opera star Albanese dies aged 105 2014-08-18T04:00:00Z

A mutual delight in the spontaneity of Mozart's ideas was offset by both pianist and conductor in their exploration of those darker regions where the harmonies shift and slide disturbingly. LSO/Haitink – review 2013-02-14T18:02:49Z

“I want to be seen just as a conductor.” She’s Making History in Opera. Can She Help Ensure Its Future? 2021-10-19T04:00:00Z

And he has continued to add voraciously to his repertory, choosing roles to match his changing voice, while also becoming a prominent conductor and arts administrator. Plácido Domingo, Opera Superstar, Achieves the Unthinkable: 150 Roles 2018-08-22T04:00:00Z

Photograph: Marco Brescia/Associated Press It's taken 22 conductors, 118 years and almost as many renditions of Land of Hope and Glory to get here. A female conductor at the Last Night of the Proms is worth waving a flag for 2013-04-19T15:38:21Z

Think back to “The Rules of the Game,” in which Octave explains that he loves Christine partly as a tribute to her father, a conductor of towering importance whom he idolizes but cannot equal. Dad Left a Big Impression: The Renoir Family Inheritance 2018-05-30T04:00:00Z

As a young conductor, Bernstein spent many summers studying at Tanglewood under Koussevitzky, who invited him to be an assistant conductor in 1942. Musical Titan Honors His Heroes 2011-08-18T17:15:27Z

He still makes clear that we are in a prison: The musicians and their conductor, a less-than-incisive Ryan Turner, parade to their places in convict uniforms before the music begins. Review: Boston Lyric Opera’s ‘In the Penal Colony,’ a Surreal Exploration of Injustice 2015-11-17T05:00:00Z

Anne Manson, who in recent seasons has become the conductor of choice for opera productions at Juilliard, understandably so, drew a glowing, textured and rhapsodic performance of Janacek’s wondrous score from the excellent Juilliard Orchestra. Music Review: ‘The Cunning Little Vixen,’ at Peter Jay Sharp Theater 2013-04-29T20:13:53Z

With "The Rite," in other words, the conductor either gets it right or he doesn't, and Morlot, on Thursday, got it triumphantly right. Stravinsky, other Moderns at symphony 2011-09-30T20:42:03Z

It’s fascinating as a conductor, because often you’re playing the same piece with different orchestras and you come out with very different stories.” London Symphony, Simon Rattle work with California students 2022-03-22T04:00:00Z

And this season, Ivan Fischer began his tenure as the orchestra’s honorary guest conductor. Klaus Mäkelä, 26, Takes Podium at Storied Concertgebouw Orchestra 2022-06-10T04:00:00Z

He said he was a conductor – a specialist in baroque music – and would love to foster my talent. ‘I couldn’t deal with it, it tore me apart’: surviving child sexual abuse 2019-02-01T05:00:00Z

Leading the orchestra will be the prodigiously skilled Mr. Adès, an insightful conductor in wide-ranging repertory and an accomplished pianist. New Operas at the Met Prove to Be Rare Breed 2012-09-09T04:55:01Z

Besides the BBC Concert orchestra and conductor Charles Hazelwood, there are a half-dozen Moog synthesisers and a chorus of lab technicians. Piccard in Space ? review 2011-04-03T21:15:01Z

Marc Minkowski is the latest conductor to champion it. BBCSO/Minkowski – review 2012-12-18T20:00:25Z

Michael MacLeod, chief executive of the Hong Kong Philharmonic, said in a statement that the orchestra was “honored to share the same conductor with the New York Philharmonic.” Jaap van Zweden Extends His Other Gig, 8,000 Miles from David Geffen Hall 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z

The conductor shed no tear for the poor puppet at the end. L.A. Phil's Mirga Grazinyte-Tyla lights a fire at Disney Hall 2015-03-02T05:00:00Z

Gergiev, who is artistic director of the Mariinsky Theater in St. Petersburg and principal conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra, started the foundation in 2003 to fund cultural and educational projects. Gergiev fund embezzlement case postponed 2013-03-18T12:56:09Z

After 19 years as the ensemble’s conductor, he bids farewell with Mahler’s Symphony No. 8 at Orchestra Hall here on Sunday. A Conductor’s Tumultuous, Invaluable Tenure Ends in Minnesota 2022-06-10T04:00:00Z

Then back in L.A. in January, he woke up one morning to a text from the Finnish conductor Susanna Mälkki that Pierre Boulez had died. In a tumultuous world, conductor-composer Esa-Pekka Salonen is focusing more on the present 2016-02-14T05:00:00Z

When the superstar conductor Gustavo Dudamel took the podium at Usher Hall in Edinburgh on Saturday night to lead the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela, there were the usual cheers from the audience. Gustavo Dudamel Reunites With His Venezuelan Orchestra 2023-08-27T04:00:00Z

There are live music and dance performances, and the Knight Bus’s conductor will engage you in funny banter. Whether in Orlando or London, Harry Potter tourist attractions cast a magical spell 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z

Many conductors hear the work as a veiled personal protest and plumb the score for bitter irony. Music Review: A Visitor Arrives, Armed With a Sprawling Score 2011-02-11T22:52:48Z

She was a composer and a pioneering conductor — the first woman to lead performances by top orchestras, including the Philadelphia Orchestra and the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Summer at Bard: Nadia Boulanger, Music’s ‘One-Woman Graduate School’ 2020-03-02T05:00:00Z

Pichon, 38, in a short time has become not just one of the most interesting younger conductors working with period instruments, but also one of the most interesting conductors around. A Rising Conductor Who’s ‘Not Just a Pair of Hands’ 2022-11-17T05:00:00Z

Mr. Schwarz, who announced his departure early this year, will become conductor laureate. Ludovic Morlot Is Seattle?s New Conductor 2010-06-29T22:04:00Z

He is widely believed to be a contender for the bevy of prominent American orchestras now looking for their next conductor, including in Detroit, San Francisco and Atlanta. To Conduct Its Parks Concerts, the Philharmonic Taps a Rising Star 2018-06-08T04:00:00Z

Nicholas Kenyon, in his biography of Rattle, writes that the Philharmonic “was well known as a minefield for conductors, and Rattle was determined to steer clear of it.” The New York Philharmonic Picks Jaap van Zweden 2016-01-27T05:00:00Z

The last thing the best conductors do is to force a group of musicians to do their bidding. Mystery of the maestros: what are conductors for? 2012-06-01T21:55:13Z

A graduate of the Boston Conservatory, he later served as an assistant conductor of the Hallé Orchestra in England, under its longtime music director, Mark Elder. Baltimore Symphony’s New Conductor Breaks a Racial Barrier 2022-07-21T04:00:00Z

And if conductor Morlot’s concept was to bring the attention of young people to the Seattle Symphony, he achieved that beyond expectations, thanks in part to Bounds. Sir Mix-A-Lot dance partner enjoying viral video fame 2014-06-10T04:00:00Z

And conductor Julia Jones led a very successful “The Magic Flute” at Seattle Opera this year. Conducting’s glass podium: Female music directors are still rare, but the Northwest has nurtured some 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z

In early August, the conductor Michael Tilson Thomas announced that, following surgery to remove a brain tumor, he was withdrawing from his upcoming performances to receive treatment. Review: Michael Tilson Thomas, a Podium Hero, Returns 2021-11-05T04:00:00Z

Soon after, the mom spoke to a conductor who was “calm, lovely, and apologetic” and managed to relocate the family to seats in first class. Pregnant woman claims couple refused to move from reserved seats on train: 'Don't be these people' 2019-10-25T04:00:00Z

Renowned as a confident, warm communicator, Alsop, a New Yorker, is a former chief conductor of the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, and now leads the symphony orchestras of Baltimore and São Paulo. Last night of Proms 2013 to be conducted by a woman 2013-04-18T13:09:00Z

So now the company is gearing up quickly, preparing to marshal the forces of roughly 1,000 singers, orchestra players, conductors, dancers and actors scheduled to perform this season. The Met Opera Races to Reopen After Months of Pandemic Silence 2021-09-10T04:00:00Z

As part of the Proms coverage, she will meet artists, conductors and musicians in specially made films. Domingo to perform at the Proms 2010-04-22T11:00:00Z

In a gesture both fitting and poignant, the Oratorio Society of New York opened the program, with the dynamic conductor Pablo Heras-Casado leading the Orchestra of St. Luke’s. Review: Carnegie Hall Turns 125, With Brass and Other Fanfare 2016-05-06T04:00:00Z

At orchestral concerts, it’s unusual for conductors to make an appearance before the players have even had a chance to tune their instruments. Review: A Conductor Unearths Rarities. Will People Listen? 2022-05-13T04:00:00Z

Symphony officials earlier this month said "extreme gastric distress" forced the conductor to withdraw from his fall residency and return to Milan for treatment. Chicago Symphony: Director out of Italian hospital 2010-10-12T22:14:00Z

Nobody knew quite what to expect after the conductor’s long break, but Noseda’s schedule made no allowances for incapacity. Perspective | After a conductor’s injury, an opera in Scotland became a test run for the NSO’s future 2017-09-21T04:00:00Z

The last principal conductor at the Met served from 1973 to ’76. James Levine Withdraws From Met?s Fall Season 2011-09-07T04:32:44Z

As conductor and composer, he valued clarity and lucidity above all else. Pierre Boulez reveled in challenging music's status quo 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z

The 84-year-old American composer has also been a conductor, a horn player, a record producer, a publisher, a historian and a musicologist. Gunther Schuller: Conducting? He wrote the book 2010-08-12T22:30:00Z

When the Mexican actor Gael García Bernal won a Golden Globe last Sunday for his portrayal of an impetuous orchestra conductor in “Mozart in the Jungle,” television viewers were as stunned as he was. Musicians on How ‘Mozart in the Jungle’ Conducts Itself 2016-01-15T05:00:00Z

I always wanted to be a trumpeter when I was a kid," he reflects, "not a conductor; that was never of interest to me. In the music's service: Gerard Schwarz reflects on 26 years with Seattle Symphony 2011-06-08T22:23:03Z

But the orchestra has great advantages: a beautiful, comfortable home in the centrally located Benaroya Hall, a devoted audience and, in Mr. Morlot, an inspiring conductor. Critic?s Notebook: Ludovic Morlot Stands Out at the Seattle Symphony 2012-01-28T00:08:01Z

Here, by contrast, Harry Bicket and the English Concert are unfailingly proper but staid, a surprise from this generally inspired conductor and ensemble. Classical Recordings : Danielle de Niese?s ?Beauty of the Baroque? ? Review 2011-12-22T15:23:48Z

Unlike some orchestras, this one favors conductors it knows well, not options out of left field. The Berlin Philharmonic Comes to New York 2014-09-26T04:00:00Z

In a conversation with the conductor a week before he began his Schubert series, we hardly got around to Schubert at all. Schubert's surprising relevance: Dudamel mines the promise of youth in trying times 2017-05-21T04:00:00Z

He has spoken of psychological blocks, but he is also generous beyond belief, and serves music and musicians – as a conductor and an unboastful guru – over and above his own muse. The Pilgrim's Progress; Total Immersion: Knussen at 60 – review 2012-11-11T00:05:45Z

“There are conductors who flip through pages when we are done,” Nikolov said. At 26, the Conductor Klaus Mäkelä’s Star Keeps Rising and Rising 2022-12-02T05:00:00Z

Tubman was one of its most famous “conductors.” A new stop for Harriet Tubman along the Underground Railroad 2017-03-07T05:00:00Z

The original scores are lost, and what we have here is a reconstruction of the second version, prepared after considerable detective work by conductor Fabio Biondi for a revival, also in Vienna, earlier this year. Vivaldi: L'Oracolo in Messenia – review 2012-10-10T15:05:51Z

The conductor David Zinman, its music director and a founder of its American Academy of Conducting, had left in a serious huff. Critic’s Notebook: Aspen Music Festival Embarks on New Era 2013-07-29T21:49:03Z

The goal is to find a worthy successor to Schwarz, who, after 26 years as music director, will step down and become "conductor laureate" at the end of the 2010-2011 season. Search for Gerard Schwarz's successor at SSO is a broad-ranging and discreet one 2010-05-21T22:07:00Z

“As a professional conductor for 34 years, you get used to hearing issues before they happen,” he said in an interview at Lincoln Center, where City Ballet performs in the David H. Koch Theater. The Conductor Andrew Litton, Finding a Different Tempo 2016-01-19T05:00:00Z

The sitarist never mastered Western notation; the conductor never learned traditional Indian notation.   Zubin Mehta's L.A. return gives Shankar raga a proper home and makes Strauss hero's journey personal 2017-01-14T05:00:00Z

There are always tricks up the conductor Ivan Fischer’s sleeve, be they rearranging the sections of this crack ensemble or embedding a chorus in an innocent audience. The New Season of Classical Music: A ‘Fake News’ Opera and Sound Quilts 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z

Her mother was a nurse, her father a New York City subway conductor. Diahann Carroll, Actress Who Broke Barriers With ‘Julia,’ Dies at 84 2019-10-04T04:00:00Z

I am grateful to the BBC Symphony Orchestra's principal guest conductor, David Robertson, for his willingness to look at the score of Isabella and include it in one of his two Proms programmes. Backstage no longer: Frank Bridge at the Proms 2011-08-04T21:30:01Z

On Saturday, the Aurora Orchestra and its conductor Nicholas Collon will present “Love Song for the City,” incorporating elements from Strauss’s “Metamorphosen,” and a new chamber arrangement of Leonard Bernstein’s “West Side Story.” In Transit Blog: A London Music Series Redefines the Classics 2012-02-24T11:00:11Z

Both show standards higher than those we are used to hearing in New York; Mr. de Cou may now be the finest ballet conductor in America. | Suzanne Farrell Ballet: Suzanne Farrell Ballet at Joyce Theater - Review 2011-10-20T22:03:23Z

In the tall filing cabinets to my left are hundreds of such notes and letters from composers and writers, conductors and record producers, musical colleagues and my dearest friends. Leaving Alaska 2015-06-17T04:00:00Z

Israeli officials rejected the same idea when the conductor brought it up a year ago. Abroad: In Gaza, Concert Leaves Echoes of Normalcy 2011-05-04T13:45:05Z

And Christian Thielemann, a Wagner specialist who was given the new title of music director of the festival last year, sat in on some of his rehearsals and offered input — which is unusual among conductors. More Operatic Drama at Bayreuth as Andris Nelsons Pulls Out 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z

Adams’ advocate for the night was none other than Edo de Waart, the conductor who put Adams on the musical map. At the L.A. Phil, hearing John Adams through the man who made him famous 2016-04-22T04:00:00Z

The burden is on musicologists and conductors to decide which iteration is the most authentic, or just the best. There Are Three Versions of Bruckner’s Fourth. Why Choose? 2021-09-17T04:00:00Z

And yet, in nearly every article about Finnish conductor Susanna Mälkki, her gender is discussed — or at least noted. With every flick of her baton, conductor Susanna Mälkki chips at classical's glass ceiling 2018-01-19T05:00:00Z

In the pit, too, the conductor Vladimir Jurowski proved himself a master of timing, shaping Prokofiev’s seething score in cresting waves of sonic power. Review: ‘The Fiery Angel,’ Devilishly Tough Prokofiev 2015-12-01T05:00:00Z

The audience now surrounds the stage, with some seats close enough to hear wind players breathe between phrases and watch beads of sweat form on the conductor’s brow. A Notoriously Jinxed Concert Hall Is Reborn, Again 2022-09-29T04:00:00Z

There’s such a great history of conductors going into their 80s and doing great work. ‘2666,’ a Most Difficult Novel, Takes the Stage 2016-01-27T05:00:00Z

Ms. Hannigan intended it as an experiment, a one-off: “It wasn’t ‘I’m going to become a conductor.’” A Soprano Finds a New Voice: Conducting 2016-08-05T04:00:00Z

The conductor told The Times in a recent interview that he and Horne have lived in the same New York building for years. Patti LuPone, Marilyn Horne in conversation about 'Ghosts of Versailles' 2015-02-25T05:00:00Z

The conductor Harry Bicket, heard at the Metropolitan Opera last fall in Handel’s “Rodelinda,” draws supple, fresh playing from the orchestra. Music Review: Francisco Negrin Directs ?Rinaldo? for Lyric Opera of Chicago 2012-03-01T23:12:14Z

In an email, Susanne Blumenthal, the conductor of the EOS Chamber Orchestra in Cologne, Germany, said that even when canceled concerts have been rescheduled, most payments have been delayed, too. Neither Big Nor Small, Music Ensembles Struggle in a Pandemic 2020-06-12T04:00:00Z

“She was very studious,” says the conductor Leonard Slatkin, a longtime collaborator and mentor, of his first time working with her, when Hahn was 16. A violinist’s methodical search for creativity 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z

The orchestra said it was creating the position, which would combine several roles, including that of chief conductor and artistic director, for Ms. de la Parra. Young Mexican Conductor to Lead Queensland Symphony 2015-10-23T04:00:00Z

Moreover, one of the world’s leading opera conductors, Andris Nelsons, is the music director at the Boston Symphony. Review: Boston Lyric Opera’s ‘In the Penal Colony,’ a Surreal Exploration of Injustice 2015-11-17T05:00:00Z

A sour note was struck when some German press accounts, noting that Mr. Petrenko would be the first Jewish conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic, were condemned for including anti-Semitic stereotypes. The Berlin Philharmonic’s Anti-Anti-Maestro 2019-08-26T04:00:00Z

A former music director for the Modesto Symphony Orchestra, Krajweski has toured exclusively as a pops conductor for the last decade. Seattle Symphony pays tribute to 007 themes 2012-01-26T19:53:24Z

“You don’t have to imitate anyone. You don’t have to be like a Toscanini. That actually doesn’t work anymore, to be a conductor with totalitarian power.” Top Orchestras Have No Female Conductors. Is Change Coming? 2021-09-10T04:00:00Z

But the day closes with a rather less authentic nod to the master: a series of transcriptions, or reworkings, of Bach from conductor Andrew Litton and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Bach in business 2010-07-29T20:45:00Z

And this was another fine night for the conductor Fabio Luisi, who coaxed plush, textured playing from the impressive Met Orchestra, while bringing refreshing restraint and lucid detail to Puccini’s often teeming score. In Met’s ‘Manon Lescaut,’ Classic Love Story Gets Noir Twist 2016-02-13T05:00:00Z

It came after he received a critical drubbing: "faulty co-ordination between … conductor and … cast", "tentative, clumsy conducting", "looks of fear in the vocalists' faces" are some highlights of American reviews. How Leonard Slatkin blogged an opera disaster 2010-04-05T11:47:00Z

The conductor has now responded in a written statement, calling the accusations “unfounded.” Essential Arts & Culture: Museums facing fires, Misty Copeland onstage, and Broadway's new 'Hamilton' 2017-12-08T05:00:00Z

All four movements exhibit a striking unanimity of intent shared by soloist, conductor and ensemble, with everything geared toward vivid contrast. Classical CDs: Gerstein, Gaffigan do justice to Tchaikovsky’s Concerto No. 1 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z

Three years ago, as a guest conductor, Mr. Gilbert led the Philharmonic and the soloist Christian Tetzlaff in performances of Ligeti’s Violin Concerto. Music: New York Philharmonic Stages Ligeti?s ?Grand Macabre? 2010-05-21T19:40:00Z

He embodied an ideal of the complete musician in his roles as composer, virtuoso violinist and pianist, conductor, teacher and generous mentor to younger artists. Enescu, an Underplayed Composer, Is Still a Star in Romania 2021-10-01T04:00:00Z

Here he led the whole 85-minute “War Requiem,” including the segments incorporating Wilfred Owen’s poetry and scored for chamber orchestra, typically handled by a second conductor. Music Review: Adding Another Layer to ?War Requiem? Story 2010-12-19T23:24:23Z

Many orchestras pass their batons from one conductor to another. Passing the Baton (and Harpsichord) at Philharmonia Baroque 2019-01-17T05:00:00Z

The conductor Michael Hofstetter led a grave, ominous account of the score. ‘Don Giovanni’ at the Met Opera and in Two Other Stagings 2015-02-06T05:00:00Z

He’s thought of as a chamber music conductor, and a new-music guy — not least because he founded the American Composers Orchestra in the 1970s. At 80, America’s most famous composer remains a maverick. The man who’s conducted his 11 symphonies talks about why. 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z

Hamlisch was principal pops conductor for eight prominent orchestras — including Seattle Symphony. Jeff Tyzik took only 'a nanosecond' to accept Seattle Symphony post 2012-10-10T02:38:04Z

Under guest conductor Antony Walker’s baton, the 158-member chorus and 51-piece orchestra plumbed the depths of a liturgical work and highlighted an assortment of bel canto arias with bravura, gravitas and dynamism. Review | Choral Arts hits the mark with a serious Rossini 2018-05-20T04:00:00Z

He meant, of course, not conductor-resistant, but adaptable enough to carry out the interpretive wishes of Ms. Alsop or any other conductor when they differed from his own. In These Orchestras, Youth Meets Musical Beauty 2017-07-18T04:00:00Z

In a telephone interview, Eyre said that directing “Lucy Barton” was like being the conductor of an orchestra. Her Name Is Lucy Barton. Their Job Is Ushering Her to the Stage. 2019-12-24T05:00:00Z

Three of the world’s top conductors will take the stage in Munich in November, before the company embarks on a world tour that includes stops Tokyo, Taipei and Seoul. Opera, Ballet and More Treats for Fall: Global Arts Guide 2016-10-26T04:00:00Z

You then have issues regarding which singers and conductors and directors don't work well together or may or may not be in sympathy with or fit into this particular production. Behind the Scenes of ‘Tosca,’ the Messiest Production in Met History 2017-12-28T05:00:00Z

For the past few years at least, customers have encountered food every bit as satisfying as the pours from the bar, thanks partly to executive chef Adam Harvey, the restaurant’s longest-serving kitchen conductor. Review | Bar Charley has grown up. Now, you’ll dine as well as you drink. 2019-11-05T05:00:00Z

The following seasons expand the train’s mythology — there’s a long-running struggle over the position of “conductor” — and rotates in new protagonists. The Strange, Lovely ‘Infinity Train’ Reaches the End of the Line 2021-04-14T04:00:00Z

Plus, Times contributing reviewer Richard S. Ginnell landed at the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra’s season opener, which was led by Spanish conductor Jaime Martín — and which featured an appearance by violinist Joshua Bell. Essential Arts & Culture: A censored mural returns, PST: LA/LA is humming, learning from Las Vegas 2017-10-06T04:00:00Z

His is a unique flashiness that is all musical business, and he suited the Fantasy and his conductor ideally. Mirga's majestic moments at the Bowl before her big one in Birmingham 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z

But major orchestras around the world cut ties with him, and in January he stepped down as principal conductor of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in London nearly two years early. Boston Symphony Finds Accusations Against Charles Dutoit ‘Credible’ 2018-03-02T05:00:00Z

He recorded the album, which is anchored by a performance of Edward Elgar’s iconic Cello Concerto, at Abbey Road Studios with the London Symphony Orchestra, as helmed by the renowned British conductor Simon Rattle. Royal wedding cello prodigy hopes to inspire classical music’s next generation 2020-01-21T05:00:00Z

The story follows a boy who boards a mysterious train heading north; Tom Hanks voices the conductor, Santa and several other roles. What’s on TV Sunday: ‘SMILF’ and ‘Cash Cab’ 2017-12-17T05:00:00Z

Since Mr. Levine is a beloved conductor to many concertgoers and a vital figure in the musical life of two cities, discussions about his health have always been delicate. James Levine Says He?s Ready to Work Again 2010-09-18T00:31:00Z

Thus, conductors develop repertories of gestures that are as specific to them as their tone of voice. Perspective | What does a conductor do, anyway? A music critic lays it out. 2019-10-01T04:00:00Z

Acclaimed conductor Gilbert Varga makes his debut at Seattle Symphony Orchestra, while the Emerson String Quartet thrills their local fans by returning to Meany Theater. Who's on the guest list? Gilbert Varga, Emerson Quartet and Pink Martini 2010-04-08T20:14:00Z

"A lot of conductors' egos don't like the soloist to have too much real estate on the program," he explains. At SSO: Adams' 'Doctor Atomic Symphony' 2011-12-29T21:18:04Z

St. Petersburg followed in the 1990s, and in 2004 he became principal conductor of the Novosibirsk Opera and Ballet Theatre. Russian conductor joins Seattle Symphony for Shostakovich 2011-03-11T21:29:04Z

The violin virtuoso, conductor and teacher returns to Seattle, joined by Seattle Symphony and guest conductor Julian Kuerti in a program of Smetana, Mendelssohn and Dvorák. The Week Ahead: Ozzy Osbourne, Itzhak Perlman, author Jamie Ford 2011-01-27T00:45:05Z

In the Mahler Ninth, there’s frequently so much going on in the orchestra that a conductor must work hard for clarity. Dudamel, LA Phil deliver a glowing night of Mahler 2016-11-05T04:00:00Z

But the highly idiosyncratic training of an orchestra’s members—who draw on their conservatory backgrounds, as well as decades of working with radically different conductors and colleagues—undergirds each performance. Philip Smith, Master Trumpeter 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z

Mr. Boulez championed modern music at the Philharmonic and showed that he was an unmatched conductor of knotty contemporary scores. Recalling Pierre Boulez, a Conductor-Composer With an Ear to the Alternative 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z

Has your absence as a guest conductor at the Met simply been a case of being too busy? After 24 Years, a Conductor Returns to the Met Opera 2021-10-25T04:00:00Z

Any of these would be a reasonable first orchestra job for a young conductor to learn repertory and the music director business. The L.A. Phil's mesmerizing Mirga Grazinyte-Tyla leaps to the Birmingham orchestra 2016-02-05T05:00:00Z

Pianist, conductor and orchestra achieved a rare hand-in-glove sense of ensemble. National Philharmonic and guest soloist Haochen Zhang enchant 2015-03-29T04:00:00Z

The conductor Louis Langrée has a strong track record in the music of Schubert, whose “Unfinished” Symphony anchors this program. 10 Classical Concerts to Stream in November 2020-10-28T04:00:00Z

In some ways the marriage of conductor and orchestra seemed happiest during the Sibelius evening. Music Review: Lorin Maazel Leads the Vienna Philharmonic 2012-03-05T23:22:05Z

She “is certainly one of the outstanding women conductors of our day,” music critic Byron Belt was quoted as writing. Fiora Corradetti Contino, trailblazing female conductor, dies at 91 2017-03-17T04:00:00Z

Soon after, he came into the orbit of the composer and conductor Oliver Knussen, who was a tutor. Mark-Anthony Turnage: A life in music 2011-01-22T07:59:00Z

He accepted the four-year position of principal conductor, a significant career step though not a major time commitment. Pablo Heras-Casado, With Orchestra of St. Luke’s 2012-08-03T18:26:47Z

And not all of the 30-plus guest conductors on the Benaroya stage this season and next are candidates for the job, Evans explains. Search for Gerard Schwarz's successor at SSO is a broad-ranging and discreet one 2010-05-21T22:07:00Z

Seattle Symphony says it’s arranging for guest conductors to step in and that programming updates for the current season will be announced shortly. Seattle Symphony Music Director Thomas Dausgaard abruptly steps down 2022-01-07T05:00:00Z

On Tuesday, however, the conductor Andrews Sill spoke not of the music alone. New York City Ballet Casts a Singular Luster in ‘Jewels’ 2016-04-20T04:00:00Z

The accomplished British conductor Mark Wigglesworth, in his first performance of “Parsifal,” drew warm, plush and sensitive playing from the orchestra; the heroic Australian tenor Stuart Skelton was compelling in the title role. Music Review: A Wagnerian Quest in Proper English 2011-02-17T22:57:54Z

The problem is that such a gambit suggests the conductor doesn’t really believe in the challenging work. Review: The Philharmonic Hails Sibelius, and Offers Joshua Bell on a Mendelssohn 2015-12-30T05:00:00Z

He is also active in the symphonic world, as the principal conductor of the Vienna Symphony Orchestra since 2014 and a regular guest at major international ensembles. Review: At the Philharmonic, a Major Return Played Safe 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z

Traveling by train with a first-class ticket from Durban to Pretoria, he was told by a white conductor at Pietermaritzburg, capital of Natal, to vacate his first-class compartment and move to the baggage car. ‘Gandhi Before India’ Shows How the Mahatma Was Made 2014-05-13T04:00:00Z

For the conductor James Levine, this run of performances marks his final appearances as music director of a house he profoundly transformed during the four decades he held that position. Review: James Levine Opens Last Run as Metropolitan Opera Music Director 2016-04-24T04:00:00Z

All of it is fresh, alive, essential — this was a real conductor. 5 Classical Music Albums to Hear Right Now 2021-12-30T05:00:00Z

The production is the latest project in the conductor Leon Botstein’s long campaign to break classical music from its fixation on repertory staples and call attention to neglected works. Review: To a Rare King Arthur Opera, Bard Says ‘Welcome Back’ 2021-07-26T04:00:00Z

“I was that player on the outside, struggling to fit in, and not always sure how to anticipate the conductor,” he said. Roll Over, Mahler: U.S. Orchestras Are Shrinking 2014-11-22T05:00:00Z

He set an example that others subsequently followed, causing an escalation in the composer's reputation worldwide.While both conductor and composer were both deeply serious about their work, they shared a huge sense of humour. Sir Colin Davis remembered: 'He worked little miracles' 2013-04-15T18:13:39Z

And of course, the wonderful Met orchestra: It must be a sore temptation for any conductor to give this ensemble free rein, perhaps without at times due consideration for the voices. Review: ‘La Bohème,’ in All Its Excessive Glory 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z

The music director of an orchestra in Toulouse, France — who is also the chief conductor at the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow — was instructed to clarify his position on the war before his next appearance. Too Close to Putin? Institutions Vet Artists, Uncomfortably. 2022-03-05T05:00:00Z

The house on Friday was full, and when the conductor entered the pit, he received an extraordinary ovation. Booed in Vienna, Dudamel makes revelatory L.A. Opera debut to frenzied cheers 2016-06-12T04:00:00Z

What first caught my attention about the Berlin Philharmonic’s now-canceled concerts at Carnegie Hall this season was not just the opportunity to hear the orchestra under its new chief conductor, Kirill Petrenko. 10 Classical Concerts to Stream in October 2020-09-29T04:00:00Z

And I was sort of used to Bruno Walter and conductors like that, who were staid and used quiet, small motions. Playing for Lenny: Musicians Recall the ‘Magical’ Bernstein 2018-08-23T04:00:00Z

Andras Schiff has been performing both as pianist and conductor with the New York Philharmonic this week, in a program including concertos by Bach and Schumann and orchestral works by Haydn and Bartok. Martha Memories: The Week’s 8 Best Classical Music Moments on YouTube 2017-10-20T04:00:00Z

The Finnish conductor served as the music director of the orchestra from 1992 to 2009, and currently holds the title of conductor laureate. Esa-Pekka Salonen, Yefim Bronfman cancel Hollywood Bowl appearance 2014-07-09T04:00:00Z

This production has the right conductor in the pit: Maurizio Benini, who has long brought a sure hand and insight to bel canto works. Music Review: ‘Maria Stuarda’ at the Metropolitan, With Joyce DiDonato 2013-01-02T00:03:57Z

That may change, now that it is led by the German maestro of the moment, Christian Thielemann, who became its principal conductor a year ago. Music Review: Staatskapelle Dresden, at Carnegie Hall 2013-04-22T21:44:54Z

Artists from the Wild Up collective, including its conductor and artistic director, Christopher Rountree, are familiar to Los Angeles audiences. 10 Classical Concerts to Stream in January 2020-12-31T05:00:00Z

Cantelli was a major talent, one of the orchestra’s favorite guest conductors and a potential future music director. ArtsBeat: What Can You Find in the New York Philharmonic's Archives? 2011-02-03T23:00:55Z

Musicians joke about it — warning colleagues not to look at a conductor they dislike, since his podium antics may prove a distraction to playing the music. Perspective | What does a conductor do, anyway? A music critic lays it out. 2019-10-01T04:00:00Z

The quality of the playing was colorful and disciplined throughout the concert, and the conductor Michel Galante led with clarity and calm. Review: Argento Chamber Ensemble Pays Homage to a Central Figure of the Avant-Garde 2016-04-26T04:00:00Z

Month 2 of the season began Friday night with the first appearance of Susanna Mälkki as the orchestra’s new principle guest conductor. Susanna Mälkki brings more news to the Los Angeles Philharmonic 2017-10-30T04:00:00Z

Pierre Boulez, the French composer and conductor who was a dominant figure in classical music for over half a century, died on Tuesday at his home in Baden-Baden, Germany. Pierre Boulez, French Composer, Dies at 90 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z

There are important female conductors as well, but resistance to the idea of a female authority figure on the podium apparently lingers. Opera Review: Jane Glover Conducts ‘The Magic Flute’ at the Met 2013-12-17T22:44:44Z

She describes her transition from cellist to conductor as gradual, natural and almost inevitable. With every flick of her baton, conductor Susanna Mälkki chips at classical's glass ceiling 2018-01-19T05:00:00Z

But it owes its emotional punch to the orchestra and conductor Mark Elder, who are the real stars. La Bohème – review 2012-12-18T17:11:30Z

“I was not a trained conductor and I hadn’t studied conducting and I wanted their inputs very badly. I was afraid I’d miss something, so I always pushed my people to stay involved.” John McClure Dies at 84; Produced Classic Records 2014-06-24T04:00:00Z

He later served as chief conductor of the Vienna Symphony Orchestra in addition to other jobs with prominent European orchestras. Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, conductor known for his subtle interpretations, dies at 80

Auspiciously, though, conductor George Manahan makes the orchestra the real star of the work. Chinese opera 'Dream of the Red Chamber' opens in San Francisco with much ambition, too little nerve 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z

The in-demand composer, besides being on a deadline for his opera, also performs regularly at major international venues as both a conductor and pianist. Composer Thomas Adès devotes his downtime in L.A. to ... rehearsing 2015-09-04T04:00:00Z

Until his formal retirement from the podium this month, he was the chief conductor of the Danish National Symphony Orchestra. Rafael Frühbeck, 80, Dies; Made the World a Podium 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z

Today, the Utah Symphony is led by the Swiss conductor Thierry Fischer, who celebrates the ensemble’s 75th anniversary this year with Mahler’s First Symphony and a little controversy. CD reviews: Mullova shines in Prokofiev 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z

His time in New York overlapped with his tenure as chief conductor of the BBC Symphony Orchestra in England. Recalling Pierre Boulez, a Conductor-Composer With an Ear to the Alternative 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z

“The right conductor flicks a finger and the orchestra explodes; the same orchestra greets a lesser conductor’s wind-milling cajolery with a popgun.” Ronald Broun, lawyer and Washington Post classical music critic, dies at 75 2015-10-26T04:00:00Z

Leonard Bernstein was one of the most physically expressive conductors in modern times, which sometimes earned him the scorn of critics. Breaking Conductors? Down by Gesture and Body Part 2012-04-06T12:00:28Z

In age and expertise the orchestra is the younger sibling of the Simón Bolívars, who catapulted to fame with their conductor Gustavo Dudamel and put "Sistema", not to mention "mambo", into the language. Teresa Carre?o Youth Orchestra of Venezuela; Benjamin Grosvenor, LSO; Promised End; Radamisto 2010-10-16T23:07:00Z

The conductor Simone Young shaped enormous peaks and valleys of sound in the orchestra. Review: Opera Stars Take On an Omicron-Battered Vienna 2022-01-27T05:00:00Z

Many of the finest recordings of the Ninth are by conductors who were L.A. Mahler lives! Dudamel gives his most impressive performance yet with L.A. Phil 2016-10-21T04:00:00Z

He also is principal guest conductor of the San Francisco Opera and appears with the Metropolitan Opera in New York and other leading companies. Houston opera conductor named new music director 2011-05-26T03:52:08Z

Friday night’s concert, the second one devoted solely to the music of Shostakovich, proved spectacular indeed in every respect: the orchestra, the soloist, and the conductor. Seattle Symphony concert lives up to ‘spectacular’ title | Classical review 2013-05-18T15:37:36Z

Iván Fischer’s endlessly magnificent orchestra arrives in town for two programs, consisting entirely of Beethoven, a composer whom the conductor interprets willfully, at times. Classical Music in NYC This Week 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z

Perinpanayagam gives some cues, but mostly the musicians play without a conductor. A Queer Revolutionary Classic Book, Now Onstage With Music 2023-06-29T04:00:00Z

“If the conductor is there and seen, I think that helps the connection. It’s much more integrated.” The Maestro Wore Blue: Bringing Pizazz to the Pit at the Met 2023-04-27T04:00:00Z

It was only a matter of time before Dudamel came on board — famous conductor, check — for what has swiftly become the Los Angeles Philharmonic East. Will Gustavo Dudamel Be New York’s New Bernstein? 2023-02-07T05:00:00Z

In April, the Icelandic composer and conductor co-curated the Reykjavík Festival for the Los Angeles Philharmonic. A 'beast' of new Icelandic music will premiere tonight at the Hollywood Bowl 2017-08-22T04:00:00Z

He enjoyed a close collaboration with the conductor Georg Solti, assisting him as a vocal coach and playing continuo on 10 opera recordings. Jeffrey Tate, Conductor Whose Life Was a Worldwide Whirlwind, Dies at 74 2017-06-06T04:00:00Z

A former conductor for London’s Royal Ballet, he is well experienced in handling a danceable “Petrushka,” although his tempos here would have been on the rushed side for that. It's an old-school night at the Hollywood Bowl with Stravinsky and Joshua Bell 2017-08-30T04:00:00Z

Didion’s innate sense of rhythm is unmatched, but in her new memoir Blue Nights, she wonders if her ability to serve as its conductor has been lost in the swirling blue depths of sorrow. TIME Recommends: Joan Didion's Blue Nights 2011-11-08T15:30:05Z

And the frustration for a conductor is even if you have this aim, you are sure you cannot get it. ‘A very not normal life’: Gianandrea Noseda, the NSO’s next music director 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z

Wolff is a good conductor, though sometime too focused on efficiency. NSO showcases Kennedy Center’s composer in residence, older American gems 2016-04-14T04:00:00Z

We made our entrance and waited for the signal from the conductor. My Surprising Duet With Arthur Mitchell in Cold War Moscow 2018-09-25T04:00:00Z

Founded in 2013 by the pianist and conductor David Greilsammer, this ensemble has been winning over audiences, and shaking up classical music, in Europe. Best Classical Music of 2019 2019-12-04T05:00:00Z

“Originally I never wanted to become a conductor,” Mr. Jacobs said. This Conductor’s Mozart Isn’t for the Faint of Ear 2016-08-12T04:00:00Z

Classical music’s #MeToo moment erupted in December, when star conductor James Levine was suspended from the Metropolitan Opera after people came forward with claims of abuse. Assaults in dressing rooms. Groping during lessons. Classical musicians reveal a profession rife with harassment. 2018-07-25T04:00:00Z

But the wit he found in the music, and again some impressively soft dynamics, proclaimed Lehninger a conductor of considerable talent. Conductor, soloist make impressive SSO debuts 2014-01-24T17:50:06Z

It was just after my years as an assistant conductor with the London Symphony Orchestra, and I called some friends who were a little bit crazy, like me. The Conductor Transforming Period Performance 2021-07-01T04:00:00Z

Other conductors — think of James Levine or Michael Gielen — might progress more inevitably and inexorably than this, but in its carnage and its glory, Mr. Nézet-Séguin’s feverish excitement felt just as apt. The Philadelphia Orchestra at Carnegie Hall 2014-11-02T04:00:00Z

This year, the accomplishments of Carlos Chávez, the Mexican composer, conductor, teacher and critic, are being highlighted. Classical & Opera Listings for Aug. 14-20 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z

Ravinia, Boston and Munich followed suit by severing all ties with the conductor. On the Met's James Levine, and the age-old debate of separating the art from the artist 2017-12-21T05:00:00Z

She clung to a window frame and then the conductor’s coat before a police officer threw her off — but not before she put the driver in his place. These ‘Rebel Women’ Sought Equality in 19th-Century New York 2018-07-25T04:00:00Z

The colors, mastering all these climaxes, mixing all these textures is absolutely fascinating and an exhilarating experience for a conductor. Into the Music: Strauss?s ?Alpine Symphony? Played Twice in One Night 2012-04-13T22:20:54Z

He talked about other conductors with psychological insight. On the Met's James Levine, and the age-old debate of separating the art from the artist 2017-12-21T05:00:00Z

With a light touch on the podium and an easy way with musicians and audiences, de Cou is a perfect conductor for this kind of program. Review | NSO and NASA join to celebrate the moon landing on an orchestral scale 2019-07-21T04:00:00Z

But he is not among the guest conductors recently announced for next season, which is unfortunate: He led an exceptionally urgent and insightful account of Schumann’s Second Symphony. Review: Thomas Dausgaard Should Be a Philharmonic Regular 2019-02-15T05:00:00Z

The tape was sent to the eminent conductor Simon Rattle, who no doubt gets sackfuls of such things. Prodigy Ages Into a Merely Young Conductor 2011-02-25T14:57:07Z

At an opera house in Essen, Germany, unsung assistant conductors and a British import get to shine. Levine?s Injury Causes Headaches Around the Musical World 2011-09-21T12:00:22Z

The pianist William Barto Jones, an assistant conductor at City Opera, played with sensitivity and stamina, though his performance lacked polish. Critic?s Notebook: City Opera Begins Season With Rufus Wainwright 2011-11-18T21:43:07Z

The head conductor of the military band said that request “just totally breaks the mold of our music styles,” and substituted Deep Purple instead. Abroad: In Germany, Uproar Over a Doctoral Thesis 2011-03-14T16:58:11Z

Most conductors these days reduce an ensemble’s string body to chamber orchestra proportions for Mozart. Music Review: Fabio Luisi With the Met Orchestra at Carnegie Hall - Review 2011-10-17T15:15:08Z

At a small chamber concert held in an ornate hall where Mozart himself had played, the conductor invited young Paul up to play the triangle during a Strauss polka. Swapping a boat for a bus to explore Prague, Vienna and Budapest 2018-11-19T05:00:00Z

Pasadena Symphony The orchestra under conductor David Lockington is joined by guest vocalists for a season opener that includes Mozart’s Requiem, Mendelssohn’s String Symphony No. 3 and Elgar’s “Introduction & Allegro.” The week ahead in SoCal classical music, Oct. 14-21: Mariinsky Orchestra, Los Angeles Master Chorale and more 2018-10-12T04:00:00Z

“His music reminds us how generous he was in all respects, as a conductor, composer and educator. He had a tremendous love for life and for people, and therefore for sharing music.” Seattle Symphony to perform ‘Wonderful Town’ in honor of Leonard Bernstein’s centennial 2018-06-06T04:00:00Z

Limited hand movement left him working mostly as a conductor since the early 2000s. Brazilian piano legend plays again thanks to ‘magic’ gloves 2020-01-22T05:00:00Z

The world's major ensembles and top conductors regularly pass through town. L.A. Phil brings new 'New World' to Asia 2015-03-13T04:00:00Z

He likes to roam the stage and engage up close with conductor and orchestra members in the midst of a performance. Leonard Slatkin is traditional and bracing at Hollywood Bowl 2014-08-13T04:00:00Z

Fired up by its kinetic Danish conductor, Thomas Dausgaard,   this versatile ensemble performed the musical selections in the first half  without breaks, drawing a dramatic arc that proved emotionally satisfying and intellectually stimulating. Music Review: Swedish Chamber Orchestra and Nina Stemme at Alice Tully Hall 2013-04-26T22:53:14Z

Under the baton of guest conductor Andrew Litton, the NSO parried in return, matching the soloist phrase for phrase throughout the four movements. Pianist Emanuel Ax, NSO woo Wolf Trap audience with Brahms 2015-06-22T04:00:00Z

How does a conductor achieve the same with professional bands? Dudamel abides 2010-09-16T21:00:00Z

On Friday mornings he will oversee the young conductors, and he will lead seminars on Saturdays when he is in town. Gilbert to Head Juilliard?s Conducting Program 2011-01-12T22:57:38Z

She now works as a conductor on the New York City subway system. Library of Congress National Book Festival: Understanding Our World schedule 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z

Washington Bach Consort continued its season of guest conductors who are auditioning to become the organization’s artistic director. Review | Conductor Matthew Dirst leads Washington Bach Consort in St. John Passion 2018-03-19T04:00:00Z

“In Berlin, we have some experience with old, master conductors,” Bröking said wryly. A Conductor Comes Into His Own in the Opera Pit 2022-08-18T04:00:00Z

“She is the kind of singer that when she walks onstage, you realize there is an important presence,” the conductor Riccardo Muti said in a recent interview. Anna Caterina Antonacci, Italian Soprano 2012-03-30T16:27:11Z

The urgent performance was led by Max Blum, the chorus’s excellent assistant conductor. Music Review: New Amsterdam Singers at St. Ignatius of Antioch Episcopal Church 2013-05-24T21:00:10Z

He performed in leading concert halls and became the preferred soloist of George Szell, the formidable conductor of the Cleveland Orchestra. Leon Fleisher, sublime pianist undaunted by mysterious hand malady, dies at 92 2020-08-02T04:00:00Z

Gergiev has added to its renown through his intense array of foreign conducting gigs, including being principal conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra and principal guest conductor at the for a decade. Mariinsky Celebrates 150 Years, Looks to Future 2010-09-17T00:49:00Z

Players must rapidly learn new repertoire and, in the absence of a general music director, adapt to the style of different conductors. The Vienna Philharmonic Looks to a New Generation 2018-12-28T05:00:00Z

The 48-year-old Finn is chief conductor of the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra and a principal guest conductor of the Los Angeles Philharmonic. Perspective | Female conductors to watch 2017-11-03T04:00:00Z

Following the violin concerto premiered this year is the composer's Oboe Concerto, written for Nicholas Daniel and the Britten Sinfonia and premiered with the composer as conductor. Britten Sinfonia/MacMillan ? review 2010-10-25T21:00:00Z

Mr. Levine, 71, the Met’s music director, has led more than twice as many performances at the Met as the company’s next busiest conductor, Artur Bodanzky, who conducted there in the early 20th century. James Levine Leads His 2,500th Met Performance Saturday 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z

You must play Rachmaninoff, the great conductor George Szell once jokingly said to his players, like the Philadelphia Orchestra. Philly beguiles with symphonic power 2015-04-08T04:00:00Z

Also four conductors, two leading tenors and four baritones to share the role of the baddie. Review: ‘Tosca’ Returns to Metropolitan Opera With a Rotating Lineup 2015-10-18T04:00:00Z

Many have cut ties with close associates of Putin, such as the conductor Valery Gergiev, a longtime friend and prominent supporter of the Russian president, who was once a fixture at the Salzburg Festival. A Maestro and His Musicians Face Scrutiny Over Ties to Russia 2022-07-26T04:00:00Z

This Austrian conductor was asleep at his home in March 1954 when the telephone rang. He Was an Important Conductor. Also a Great One. 2022-01-13T05:00:00Z

Mr. Adès, a most compelling conductor and pianist, leads the Orchestra of St Luke’s and plays piano with the Calder Quartet at all three performances. Dance This Week: From Modern to Tango to Flamenco 2015-11-17T05:00:00Z

The conductor Fabio Luisi became the music director of the Dallas Symphony just last year, but it was recently announced that his contract has already been extended, through the 2028-29 season. 10 Classical Concerts to Stream in February 2021-01-28T05:00:00Z

Yet the quality achieved throughout this programme spoke of a relationship between the ensemble and its conductor laureate that remains, however infrequent his visits latterly, genuinely special. LSO/Previn ? review 2011-01-18T22:31:01Z

He first came to Tanglewood in the 1980s, when he was named the conductor of the Boston Pops, and over the years, it has become his summer refuge from Hollywood. ArtsBeat Blog: John Williams Lets His Muses Carry Him Along 2011-08-19T11:00:56Z

David Robertson retained the white-tie-and-tails uniform of an orchestra conductor but merrily jogged onstage of Walt Disney Concert Hall on Tuesday night sporting the same red-white-and-blue footwear and a huge grin. National Youth Orchestra is sensational at Disney Hall 2014-08-05T04:00:00Z

Charles Dutoit celebrates his 20th and final summer as artistic director and principal conductor of the Philadelphia Orchestra's season with a farewell concert of Shostakovich, Debussy, Respighi and Korngold's Violin Concerto. Summer Stages: Classical 2010-05-07T21:59:00Z

"Some conductors die while conducting, it is nice to die that way," he said. No retirement for Belgian conductor Herreweghe as he turns 70 2017-05-12T04:00:00Z

This year instead the music director yielded the Benaroya Hall podium to a guest conductor from just down the road, who presented by contrast a program devoted exclusively to Austro-German classics. Carlos Kalmar leads SSO in fresh take on Beethoven 2013-12-29T19:43:19Z

He also — a rarity in these works — serves as both soloist and conductor, leading an ensemble of around 50 players. A Pianist Comes Around on Period Instruments 2021-06-04T04:00:00Z

Eventually, he meets Mohammed el-Adl, a young Egyptian train conductor, and they form a complex, illicit relationship. Review: ‘Arctic Summer’ by Damon Galgut, a fictional biography of E.M. Forster

The show caused a stir and put Mr. Gardiner on the map as a conductor of immense persuasive gifts. John Eliot Gardiner Returns to Monteverdi’s Vespers 2015-04-25T04:00:00Z

This so-called academy was founded by harpsichordist and conductor Christopher Hogwood. Academy of Ancient Music takes on Bach in Disney Hall debut 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z

The work, for soprano, baritone, vocal ensemble and orchestra, will feature the Knickerbocker Chamber Orchestra, of which Mr. Fagin, 63, is the music director and conductor. Schimmel Center Season to Feature Musical Work About Gay Rights Battle 2015-07-31T04:00:00Z

After starting the prelude with daringly careful slowness — many conductors today favor a swifter, more natural flow — Mr. Petrenko unleashes waves of spiky, sparkling sound. Review: A Conductor Sets Munich’s Ashen ‘Parsifal’ Aflame 2018-07-01T04:00:00Z

But he trimmed back his presence here months ago, turning over a production of Strauss’s “Salome” in late August to another conductor, to allow himself more time for recuperation. Music: In Japan, a Frail Osawa Conducts Only One Tchaikovsky Movement 2010-09-06T22:51:00Z

Next month she will lead the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in a series of programs as the chief conductor and curator, a new title created for her, of the Ravinia Festival. A Trailblazing Female Conductor Is Still Alone on the Trail 2021-06-11T04:00:00Z

For that to be sensed, “Tosca” must ultimately be a conductor’s opera. Puccini extreme: Dudamel's gloriously pessimistic 'Tosca' an indictment on the appeal of fascism 2016-07-25T04:00:00Z

“She is a prime example of today’s ‘ready for action’ rising women conductors.” A Conductor on a Mission to Help Ukraine 2023-01-18T05:00:00Z

Mr. Nagano is a brilliant conductor of contemporary music. Music Review: Montreal Symphony at La Maison Symphonique - Review 2011-09-08T22:00:33Z

London, for example, is debating the price and location of a new hall sought by Simon Rattle, the conductor who will be the next music director of the London Symphony Orchestra. Lincoln Center Report: We Entertain, Educate, Accept Tax Dollars 2016-06-13T04:00:00Z

But before that, as an itinerant guest conductor, he’s bringing “A Night at the Cotton Club” to town. It’s got that swing: ‘Cotton Club’ coming to Benaroya Hall 2013-05-30T19:47:55Z

“We are deeply worried for the future of culture in the country and in Europe,” the conductor was quoted as saying. ArtsBeat: At La Scala, Budget-Cut Protests, Inside and Out 2010-12-07T22:30:00Z

He also appeared as guest conductor with orchestras all over the United States. Donald Pippin, Conductor on Broadway and Beyond, Dies at 95 2022-06-17T04:00:00Z

But it’s good news that Mr. DePreist, an admirable artist, will continue with the orchestra as principal conductor and director emeritus. Music Review: Saying Farewell to School, With Some Help From Brahms 2011-05-20T21:22:12Z

In the trailer, Fassbender’s Jobs announces that he is not a musician – he is the conductor. “Steve Jobs,” portrait of the artist as tech guru: What we lose when we worship at the altar of commerce 2015-07-01T04:00:00Z

“She gets your attention with the thickness, intensity and edge of her sonorities,” Leon Botstein, one of the few conductors in the United States to program her music this centenary season, said in an interview. She’s Rising From the Depths of Soviet Music History 2019-09-27T04:00:00Z

Bernstein became, of course, the greatest Copland conductor, and his recording of "Appalachian Spring" with the L.A. Audra McDonald captivates a Bowl audience, but she's meant for more 2015-09-02T04:00:00Z

The conductor Mark Elder — striving, it seemed, for depth and gravity — drew dark, restrained playing from the orchestra. Review: The Met’s New ‘Samson’ Succeeds Only as Kitsch 2018-09-25T04:00:00Z

On July 31 the Basque conductor Juanjo Mena, just named to lead the Philharmonic, will tackle a program of Berg, Strauss and Mahler’s Symphony No. 4. Tanglewood Batons: Thomas, Dohnanyi and Mena 2010-07-08T22:06:00Z

The final performance, at the Church of St. Vincent Ferrer on the Upper East Side, featured the 12-member vocal ensemble Tenet and the Sebastians playing on historical instruments — with no conductor. A Critic Gives Prizes for 5 ‘Messiah’ Concerts in New York 2018-12-21T05:00:00Z

While it is not uncommon for jet-age conductors to simultaneously lead orchestras in the United States and Europe, an orchestra of Berlin’s caliber may want a certain level of commitment from its leader. Dudamel Extends Contract With Los Angeles Philharmonic 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z

Joseph Silverstein, a conductor and violinist who was concertmaster of the Boston Symphony Orchestra for 22 years, died on Sunday in Springfield, Mass. He was 83. Joseph Silverstein, Longtime Boston Symphony Orchestra Concertmaster, Dies at 83 2015-11-27T05:00:00Z

The magazine Musical America named him its conductor of the year in 2011. Rafael Frühbeck, 80, Dies; Made the World a Podium 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z

Rodrigues then asks for volunteers, and breaks down a poem line by line with the 10 of them, leading like a conductor. Review: ‘By Heart’ Commits Community to Memory 2021-10-13T04:00:00Z

That’s why she also moves so musically on the stage, unlike singers who try to find the best acoustic spot and then want to stay there, looking at the conductor.” Music: Katarina Dalayman in ?G?tterd?mmerung? at the Met 2012-01-22T02:23:06Z

She became an experienced performer under the baton of Arturo Toscanini, the revered Italian conductor. Licia Albanese, acclaimed opera soprano known for ‘Madama Butterfly,’ dies at 105

As Longborough proves, all you need is a conductor who knows his Wagner inside-out – well, alright, that and an opera house in your garden. Two conductors fight it out in the Wagner ring 2010-08-02T11:38:00Z

There's nothing more rewarding than singers who feel comfortable with their conductors. Glyndebourne and Figaro: a perfect match 2012-06-22T21:55:15Z

Or like "a train I couldn't get off of, except that I was the conductor," he added, speaking in quick bursts and fidgeting in his chair. Charlie Sheen sitcom poised for 90-episode pickup 2012-07-29T01:01:04Z

“I said, ‘Do you want to be my chief conductor?’” A ‘Ring’ Lures the Conductor Gianandrea Noseda to Zurich 2018-07-02T04:00:00Z

Or conductor Sir Thomas Beecham, who may — or may not — have called Seattle a "cultural dustbin"? 'Before Seattle Rocked': music history as social history 2011-10-27T20:10:05Z

It forced me to rethink my job and the role of the conductor. How a Brush With Death Changed the Next Conductor of St. Luke’s 2017-05-03T04:00:00Z

Christopher Lade didn’t want to sound crass when I chatted with him the other day, but he’s really just waiting for the right conductor to keel over. future maestros and mezzos at the Seattle Opera 2013-03-29T21:13:56Z

Lionel Bringuier, former resident conductor of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, will preside Tuesday over the opener of the Hollywood Bowl's classical season. Lionel Bringuier kicks off Hollywood Bowl season with L.A. Phil 'family' 2015-07-07T04:00:00Z

Botstein is the daughter of Leon Botstein, the orchestral conductor and president of Bard College, whose parents lost most of their relatives in the war. Ken Burns Explores America’s Inaction During the Holocaust 2022-09-01T04:00:00Z

The Metropolitan Opera had to scramble to find a replacement for its “Magic Flute” conductor after she tested positive for the coronavirus last month. Scrambling but Undaunted, the Met Opera Sings Through Omicron 2022-01-07T05:00:00Z

“I think it is an interesting sign that many of the world’s most interesting conductors and musicians want to work with her,” said Gillian Moore, the director of music for London’s Southbank Centre. ‘Wild Child’ of Violin on a Meteoric Rise 2016-08-23T04:00:00Z

From the start of his tenure, audiences had to adjust to seeing him conduct while seated in a conductor’s chair with a back support. For James Levine, Now May Be a Time to Choose 2010-04-12T22:46:00Z

At a program called “The Genius of Monteverdi,” witness the genius of the conductor William Christie, an early-music exponent without compare. Classical Music in NYC This Week 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z

Conducting today is communication: A conductor develops a vision of how she wants a piece of music to sound, and then tries to transmit that vision to 80 or 100 players. Perspective | What does a conductor do, anyway? A music critic lays it out. 2019-10-01T04:00:00Z

“As a young Italian conductor, your destiny is to conduct Italian operas,” he said. On Deck,The Met?s Pinch-Hitter 2011-04-21T13:39:32Z

Q: You're chief conductor of two major orchestras, and you work with many others. Danish guest conductor arrives for a weekend of Northern European composers 2010-03-24T22:28:00Z

Yet the conductor also is the ultimate communicator, the person charged with bringing the best out of a hundred musicians to create compelling music. Perspective | What does a conductor do, anyway? A music critic lays it out. 2019-10-01T04:00:00Z

Many conductors treat the third-movement scherzo as an exercise in dance rhythm; here, the energy was certainly propulsive, but Thomas also coaxed out a riot of colors and textures. Michael Tilson Thomas Revels in the Present With the New York Phil 2023-03-10T05:00:00Z

During the interview, he recounted showing the work to a conductor. Revisiting a Composer’s Psychedelic Lewis Carroll Music 2023-01-05T05:00:00Z

This year, the NSO chose conductor Andrew Davis’s recent re-orchestration, with Davis conducting its Washington premiere at the Kennedy Center on Thursday evening. Review | NSO presents a muddled ‘Messiah,’ but all is not lost 2019-12-20T05:00:00Z

The basic question is whether Mr. Salonen, a former music director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic who is principal conductor of the Philharmonia Orchestra in London, is interested in the job. Review: New York Philharmonic Performs Esa-Pekka Salonen’s ‘Nyx’ 2015-03-20T04:00:00Z

The Los Angeles Philharmonic's conductor laureate, who last led his old orchestra outdoors six summers ago just before beginning his final season as L.A. Fill-ins Behzod Abduraimov and James Gaffigan shine at Bowl 2014-07-16T04:00:00Z

In 1968, he became chief conductor for the prestigious London Symphony Orchestra, and became quite a celebrity in Britain. Acclaimed conductor and pianist Andre Previn dies at 89 2019-02-28T05:00:00Z

They watch and react to one another almost as much as they do the conductor. Gustavo Dudamel and Bolivar symphony bring Beethoven's revolutionary conviction out in force 2015-10-04T04:00:00Z

“Very soon after I went to the symphony,” Mr. Halsey recalled, “he took me aside and said, ‘You probably could earn a living as a second-rate orchestral conductor.’ Simon Halsey, Preaching to, and for, the Choir 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z

He made a positive impression in his Seattle debut as guest conductor last year, and again in his return in April. Seattle Symphony names new music director 2010-06-30T17:59:00Z

Listeners’ first reaction to the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, to judge from comments overheard, is amazement at the unanimity of the playing in the absence of a conductor. Orpheus Chamber Orchestra Opens Season at Carnegie Hall 2014-10-26T04:00:00Z

The soprano Nora Fischer, who lives in Amsterdam and is the daughter of the Hungarian conductor Ivan Fischer, divided her recital into halves. Europe’s ‘Rising Star’ Musicians Give as Much as They Get 2018-01-30T05:00:00Z

Some producers took pride in their ability to pick out the slightest imperfections in a performance, to hear better than the conductor or the musicians. John McClure Dies at 84; Produced Classic Records 2014-06-24T04:00:00Z

It’s like when people advise young conductors to beat less, trust the orchestra more, and it’ll work better. Prodigy Ages Into a Merely Young Conductor 2011-02-25T14:57:07Z

There isn't all that much a conductor can do with it, which at moments appeared to frustrate Canellakis, causing her to push a little too hard. Review: Make this L.A. Chamber Orchestra guest conductor feel at home 2015-01-26T05:00:00Z

A replacement conductor will be announced for his July 5 concert featuring young musicians both from his Swiss Academy String Quartet Ensemble and the Tanglewood Music Center. Seiji Ozawa Cancels Tanglewood Appearances 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z

Sometimes the conductors would move her for her safety into the first-class car, where she would find herself surrounded by businessmen pretending to read their newspapers. Jordan Mooney, an Avatar of Punk Style, Dies at 66 2022-04-10T04:00:00Z

But with the right colleagues in chamber music and the right conductor in concertos, reined in just a bit, Ms. Argerich is often incomparable. Classical Playlist: Mozart, Schubert, Goffredo Petrassi and More 2014-08-20T04:00:00Z

Because when you’re accompanying a soloist, the soloist is the conductor. What makes a good conductor? Harmony — and ‘authority through knowledge.’ 2017-05-23T04:00:00Z

So it's a surprise to find him, halfway along the tunnel, cheerfully spraying arcs of aerosol paint on to a wall like an orchestra conductor. A working life: The graffiti artist 2011-07-22T22:02:15Z

Phil principal guest conductor Susanna Mälkki will conduct Sibelius’ incidental music to Shakespeare’s “The Tempest” to accompany new staging in Disney Hall by the Old Globe. L.A. Phil centennial plans: Unprecedented commissions, new Gehry-designed home for YOLA 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z

He is writing a piece for the Metropolitan Opera, where he was once an assistant conductor. Composer-conductor Matthew Aucoin is tapped to join L.A. Opera as an artist in residence 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z

He learns from the conductor’s methods as much as from his mechanics. London Symphony, Simon Rattle work with California students 2022-03-22T04:00:00Z

Then there will be the context, which may startle the Chinese, Koreans or Japanese audiences who know conductor Gustavo Dudamel's approach to these two big symphonic works from recordings. L.A. Phil brings new 'New World' to Asia 2015-03-13T04:00:00Z

Me, Diana, a good conductor, a good director: The ingredients are so good that it’s going to come out something nice. Romeo and Juliet, Flushed and Feverish at the Met Opera 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z

The Bolívars are at a crossroads: many of the players, who have grown up with their conductor Dudamel, are now making their living as teachers in El Sistema. Move over Sim?n Bol?var: a new youth orchestra is on its way | Tom Service 2010-03-30T16:01:00Z

But Rattle is a conductor nothing like the more emotionally spartan Boulez, and this Mahler Seventh was effusive in the extreme. Is Berlin the world's best orchestra? Answer is irrelevant in two concerts of ferocity and finesse 2016-11-21T05:00:00Z

The special, taped in August, includes five different conductors; performances from Yo-Yo Ma and Midori; songs from “Candide” and “West Side Story”; and selections from composers who influenced Bernstein, including Gustav Mahler and Aaron Copland. How Much Watching Time Do You Have This Weekend? 2018-12-27T05:00:00Z

The orchestra and conductor sit in a defunct restaurant while the company roams the station for the 70-minute performance, never getting a glimpse at the conductor. What's that whisper? Wireless headphone opera in busy train station 2013-11-18T17:33:45Z

Here and throughout the weekend, the indefatigable City Opera orchestra played with spirit under several conductors. Critic?s Notebook: At Vox Festival, Future of City Opera Sounds All Too Familiar 2011-05-16T21:55:57Z

Both conductors are currently Dudamel Fellows with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, with responsibilities for leading family concerts. Nurturing Musicians of Depth 2010-03-30T12:30:00Z

The Illinois-born, Swedish conductor is 94, and he maintains a schedule that musicians half his age might blanch at. A Conductor Brings Nearly a Century of Experience to Beethoven 2022-03-02T05:00:00Z

Keyboard artist and choral conductor for the past 15 years at the annual Shenandoah Valley Bach Festival. From players, pipes and pedals, a celestial song 2016-07-29T04:00:00Z

But Lade found himself drawn not to the piano player, as one might expect, but conductor Joana Carniero, of the Berkeley Symphony, who was helping with rehearsals. future maestros and mezzos at the Seattle Opera 2013-03-29T21:13:56Z

At the start of Family Day, the composer and conductor Adam Glaser will show how writers of music tell stories, too. Spare Times for Children for Dec. 6-12 2013-12-06T01:34:36Z

Still, the performance offered animated, if sometimes scrappy, playing by the New York City Opera Orchestra under the conductor James Meena, and vibrant singing from the company’s chorus. Review: Signs of Rebirth at New York City Opera 2016-09-09T04:00:00Z

A Renaissance Man, And Many Eras Besides The conductor Pablo Heras-Casada, 34, has only recently begun engaging with the most popular classical music, having concentrated before on both early and contemporary compositions. An Imperiled Legacy 2012-08-03T18:41:18Z

For the Seattle Symphony performances, the narrator will be Seattle Pacific University composer/choral conductor Stephen Newby. Meet the young composer whose piece for Seattle Symphony is among the first inspired by 2020’s impactful events 2021-11-24T05:00:00Z

A few days later, blazing a trail for conductors to side openly with their players during labor strife, he led three concerts with the orchestra’s musicians, whose management had exiled them from their own hall. A Conductor’s Tumultuous, Invaluable Tenure Ends in Minnesota 2022-06-10T04:00:00Z

Mr. Jonsson, the conductor, making his New York debut, sometimes extended the opening and closing chords of the excerpt in an attempt to give the singers more rest. ArtsBeat Blog: A Magical Musical Moment, Extended to 12 Hours 2011-11-20T01:16:06Z

The conductor said this year’s lineup would feature a broader mix, with “very fiery pieces, but also very dreamy pieces.” For the Vienna Philharmonic, Summer Means Schönbrunn 2017-05-30T04:00:00Z

First, though, we assembled at West Park Presbyterian Church on the Upper West Side, met by the baritone and choral conductor Malcolm J. Merriweather for a practice session. In Make Music Winter, Critics Find Their Inner Yodelers and Pilgrims 2015-12-22T05:00:00Z

She spent the next several years bouncing between jobs, scraping by first as a streetcar conductor and cook who read the Russians — Dostoevsky, Turgenev, Chekhov — in her free time. Maya Angelou, writer and poet, dies at age 86

I hadn’t heard conductor Anne Manson before, and all I knew of her was of her tenure with the Kansas City Symphony. Virginia Opera’s ‘Orpheus in the Underworld’ is almost heaven 2015-10-04T04:00:00Z

But it’s been driven home, more than ever, by the recent ouster of the conductor James Levine. Perspective | Institutions raced to dump James Levine. They should look hard at themselves. 2017-12-15T05:00:00Z

“His whole vocal capacity has developed into this role,” the veteran conductor Mark Elder, who leads the London Philharmonic Orchestra in the production, said during a rehearsal break. Critic’s Notebook: ‘Billy Budd,’ an Unusual Foray for Mark Padmore 2014-02-06T23:28:59Z

But will we lose that glorious old feeling when the first stroke of the conductor’s baton said “Enter a different world”? Dance Review: Leaps and Bounds of At-Home Season 2010-09-16T04:15:00Z

Whenever you see it on a playbill, it's nearly always a badge of orchestral managers and conductors scraping the barrel of their creative imaginations. Bored by Brahms? Do you find Telemann tedious? 2011-07-06T12:06:36Z

That was part of their final American tour under their last chief conductor, Simon Rattle, whose interpretations could be willful in a way that was sometimes illuminating and sometimes frustrating. Review: The Berlin Philharmonic Gives a Master Class at Carnegie 2022-11-13T05:00:00Z

But it was only in 1987 that the practice of choosing an annual conductor began. Forget the Ball Dropping in Times Square: Go to Vienna 2016-12-21T05:00:00Z

The chorale announced Monday that Robert Istad, its assistant conductor for the last 10 years, will succeed Alexander as music director. Pacific Chorale's John Alexander to retire after 45 years 2015-02-10T05:00:00Z

My grandmother’s dinner table was never empty, and she coordinated the menu details with her children in perfect symphony, like a seasoned conductor. A Chicken Dish That Makes It Feel Like Christmas 2020-12-18T05:00:00Z

Seldom thought of as a conductor's opera but as with all Verdi, "Traviata" can succeed or fail from the podium. Substitutes shine in 'Traviata' at the Hollywood Bowl 2015-08-11T04:00:00Z

That’s not up to me. It’s up to the orchestra and up to the conductor.  For violinist Augustin Hadelich, the spotlight shines brighter at 32 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z

The train stopped shortly after we got into the mountains because of what the conductor called a “heat slowdown,” tracks so overheated they risked buckling under the train. Riding the Rails to the Summer of Love 2016-09-06T04:00:00Z

Thanks to Adam Stern — a conductor, pianist, composer and lecturer — and the advent of electronic notation, however, the family was able to hear the Mass for the first time, and realized it was indeed performable. A 190-year-old score, written in Prague and locked in a wooden box, gets its world premiere 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z

But Stephen Stubbs, the conductor of the Juilliard production and an artistic director of the Boston Early Music Festival, said the original 1733 version “represents Rameau’s undigested thoughts about what opera should be.” An Opera Worth Fighting Over 2018-04-13T04:00:00Z

Not only has the Master Chorale worked with Adams more than any other chorus but its music director, Grant Gershon, is also unique among Adams’ conductors. John Adams' operatic essence and Stravinsky's inner pagan revealed through pianos and chorus 2017-03-27T04:00:00Z

As music director of the Berliners for a dozen years, Rattle is the British conductor who has risen higher than any other. Europe concert diary: Rattle and Berlin Philharmonic at London Proms 2014-09-06T04:00:00Z

Mr. Robertson, who first appeared as a guest conductor in Sydney in 2003, assumed his post in St. Louis in 2005, when he also became principal guest conductor of the BBC Symphony Orchestra. ArtsBeat: David Robertson to Lead Sydney Symphony 2012-05-15T00:00:08Z

Sometimes that doesn’t matter so much: There is a patient Bruckner Ninth that satisfies despite its longueurs with the Gothenburg Symphony, which hosted Dudamel for an apprenticeship as its principal conductor from 2007 to 2012. What Gustavo Dudamel’s Recordings Reveal About His Conducting 2023-05-13T04:00:00Z

The conductor, Nicola Luisotti, led a performance of bold contrasts and rich colorings, though marred by untidy execution and ensemble glitches. Review: Anna Netrebko Makes ‘Aida’ Her Own at the Met Opera 2018-09-27T04:00:00Z

An Edinburgh international festival spokeswoman said Boreyko was one of the most exciting and dynamic conductors to emerge from eastern Europe in recent years. Conductor accused of child molestation pulls out of UK concerts 2010-08-05T10:33:00Z

And, even more exciting, is a fresh reading of the music from the conductor Gil Rose and his Boston Modern Orchestra Project. 5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now 2022-10-27T04:00:00Z

The conductor looked up at me in astonishment. Tenor Jonas Kaufmann takes on Tristan, opera’s voice killer 2021-06-23T04:00:00Z

Top orchestras demand their conductors be seasoned, particularly if they’re going to appear on prestigious subscription series. Want More Diverse Conductors? Orchestras Should Look to Assistants. 2021-06-04T04:00:00Z

The top orchestras in New York and Hong Kong moved this year to lock the highly sought Dutch conductor into contracts that run until 2022. Jaap Van Zweden Is a Global Maestro of Music and Multitasking 2016-10-26T04:00:00Z

As he tells the story, the Oslo Philharmonic, then led by another Latvian conductor, Mr. Jansons, who was visiting the capital on tour. Young Conductor at the Forefront of His Field 2010-04-20T11:45:00Z

“I’m aware I don’t really look like your standard conductor,” said Gemma New, 26, the associate conductor of the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra. Female Conductors Search for Equality at Highest Level 2013-12-20T20:33:48Z

“By not seeing a conductor’s head in the pit, or a pit itself, theatergoers may also be left wondering if the music is even live or whether it’s simply recorded.” Moving Orchestras Out of Sight, Maybe Even Out of the Theater 2012-03-24T02:16:49Z

But if the account succeeded, it was less because the conductor revealed new depths in the work than because of Mr. Zukerman’s excellent playing. Music Review: New York Philharmonic Plays Bruch and Bruckner 2013-01-10T22:16:29Z

With a strong caveat — this conductor’s modest relationship with new music — his first season has been a tremendous success. At the Boston Symphony, Andris Nelsons Embraces Tradition but Looks Ahead 2015-04-04T04:00:00Z

And now you’re the first female conductor of a major American symphony. Rhythm of change: Marin Alsop leads the Baltimore Symphony into the future 2016-12-20T05:00:00Z

Ms. Alsop, 56, is also the music director of the São Paulo State Symphony Orchestra, which upgraded her title from principal conductor this month. ArtsBeat: Baltimore Symphony Extends Director’s Contract 2013-07-24T20:04:05Z

In the 1980s, he became principal guest conductor of the Los Angeles Philharmonic and then principal conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra, which he helped transform into the international powerhouse it is today. Perspective | Michael Tilson Thomas was once the ‘bad boy of classical music.’ Now, at 74, he still conducts with childlike delight. 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z

The performance will hardly eclipse in memory Ms. Hannigan’s, as she sang “Mysteries” at the Lucerne Festival in Switzerland in 2014 while — now also an aspiring maestro — doubling as conductor. Review: The Philharmonic Revisits an Early Triumph of Its Director 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z

Along with the conductor Mark Elder, Laurent Naouri is the holdover from opening night, and he still sings the High Priest with restrained relish. Review: A Surprise Tenor Jolts the Met Opera’s ‘Samson’ 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z

Here are some types of conductors officials may consider, though many of the maestros named are under contract elsewhere. Who Might Replace Gilbert at the Philharmonic 2015-02-06T05:00:00Z

Apparently conductors do not have to pay their music librarians five cents a day. Battle of the Bands: At 175, New York and Vienna Face Off 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z

Behind them, hard-hitting drummer Henry LaVallee plays engine and conductor, setting the throttling pace while keeping everything from flying off the rails. Naked Giants hit the road with SXSW buzz, raucous new record ‘SLUFF’ 2018-04-06T04:00:00Z

He made his debut as a conductor in 1988 and is in his 15th season as music director of the lively Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra. The Week Ahead: Nov. 20 ? 26 2011-11-18T22:01:22Z

In fact, to imply that most conductors are mere time-beaters, is also ridiculous --and I do think that Mr. Woolfe was merely waxing poetic there to get us all going! With James Levine Fired, Should We Rethink Maestro Worship? 2018-03-13T04:00:00Z

He was a conductor who usually got his way, which meant that he sometimes clashed with the institutions he led. Lorin Maazel, 84, remembered: A conductor of the old school 2014-07-14T04:00:00Z

Arts Editor Will Gompertz went along to rehearsal to meet one of the most recorded conductors of all time. Conducting the Proms at 90 2014-08-08T04:00:00Z

In a way, it’s a risk for a Finnish conductor to make an important debut with Sibelius’s Second, the best-known Finnish symphony, completed in 1902. Review: John Storgards’s Debut With the New York Philharmonic 2016-05-13T04:00:00Z

Thomas emerged as a Tanglewood fellow, arriving here for the first time in 1968 and winning the Koussevitzky Prize for an outstanding student conductor a year later. In His Twilight, a Conductor Revisits Where His Career Dawned 2022-08-31T04:00:00Z

Did the firing arise from an inquiry into whether Mr. Halls, a white, British-born conductor, had been racially insensitive in jokingly affecting a Southern accent with an African-American colleague? A Firing and a Question of Race Roil the Oregon Bach Festival 2017-09-18T04:00:00Z

The field was narrowed to 10 conductors, who took part in the semifinals Feb. 4-6 here. Young Japanese conductor named first Muti apprentice at CSO 2011-02-20T15:50:00Z

“And that lack of interaction between the artists and the audience, like that fourth wall you have in theater: Rarely do you have a conductor or musician address the audience.” Bringing Classical Music to the Club Scene 2016-08-23T04:00:00Z

The Los Angeles Philharmonic, where Grazinyte-Tyla began as a Dudamel fellow and is associate conductor, does an exceptional job promoting young talent and commissioning new work. Why does L.A. need its own summer classical music festival? For answers, look 6,000 miles away 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z

Poems in Four Voices, a Concerto in Two That David Robertson is a superb conductor of contemporary classical music hardly needs repeating. Music Review: New York Philharmonic’s Contact! Series at the Met 2012-06-10T22:10:56Z

She is only the third female conductor in the company’s 133-year history. Female Conductors Search for Equality at Highest Level 2013-12-20T20:33:48Z

Mr. Langrée, a balletic conductor who shapes the music with lithe, expansive gestures, led all three symphonies from memory. Music Review: Louis Langrée Leads Mostly Mozart Festival’s Grand Finale 2013-08-25T19:36:27Z

The meteoric rise of this or that conductor, pianist or singer you read about is usually the result of years of planning and preparation. How classical music's secret agents control what you hear 2010-05-05T10:30:00Z

The conductor, who is the music and artistic director of the L.A. Gustavo Dudamel and Youth Orchestra of L.A. to perform at Super Bowl 50 halftime show 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z

Some conductors, convinced that their musical understanding gives them insight into how a particular opera should be produced, have used their clout to appropriate the director’s job. The Conductor Will Also Direct 2011-07-14T22:44:55Z

This opening gambit is often taken as a chance for a conductor to show off a work by a less-known compatriot, and that was certainly true here. Restrained and urbane, Noseda leads NSO in strong Rachmaninoff 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z

A conductor faces 90 incredibly talented, highly intelligent, experienced musicians. Search for Gerard Schwarz's successor at SSO is a broad-ranging and discreet one 2010-05-21T22:07:00Z

The Met has worked to rally support for Ukraine, hosting a benefit concert and helping form an orchestra of Ukrainians, to be led by Gelb’s wife, the Canadian Ukrainian conductor Keri-Lynn Wilson. The Netrebko Question 2022-06-22T04:00:00Z

The conductor Robert Spano led the impressive chamber orchestra the Knights and a wonderful cast of singers taking multiple roles in a vibrant performance of the piece, directed by Mary Birnbaum. 'The Classical Style,' an Opera Buffa at Zankel Hall 2014-12-05T05:00:00Z

Mitropoulos’s stint in the Twin Cities was radical in more than just repertoire, challenging the godlike halo of other conductors with his asceticism. A Monkish Conductor Who Expressed His Faith Through Music 2022-04-29T04:00:00Z

Though he exudes youthful energy, Mr. Gilbert looks like a veteran maestro in comparison with some of the conductors who are taking over elsewhere. Philharmonic?s Alan Gilbert and the Youth Movement 2010-07-09T22:48:00Z

Mr. Feinstein, who appeared with the Pasadena Pops in a July 21 concert conducted by Mr. Hamlisch, is to begin in his role as principal pops conductor in the orchestra's 2013 season. ArtsBeat: Feinstein Named Successor to Hamlisch at Pasadena Pops 2012-08-20T15:46:55Z

But if Liszt as pianist, teacher and conductor exists now only as memory, anecdote and influence, Liszt as a composer is with us as never before. The hot Liszt 2010-12-27T21:30:01Z

But I didn’t come away feeling that Harding is a thrilling conductor — or that he had brought out the best in this wonderful orchestra. Review | Even a great orchestra needs a great conductor: Concertgebouw pales at Kennedy Center 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z

Lennie is obsessed with hearing George tell a story, and it’s almost like I’m a conductor and he’s the orchestra telling the story. Chris O’Dowd puts his body on the line on Broadway 2014-06-03T04:00:00Z

Her life included writing poetry by age 9, giving birth as a single mother by 17, and becoming San Francisco’s first black streetcar conductor. Private memorial service set for poet Maya Angelou 2014-06-07T04:00:00Z

It’s interesting: There is this image of the conductor as the authoritative figure, and as small-d democrats we are attracted to the idea of a more autonomous ensemble working things out for themselves. How Classical Music Can Help You Hear the Open Road 2021-01-13T05:00:00Z

His male gaze was counterbalanced by an often coy conductor who made every bar her own. Conductor Mirga Grazinyte-Tyla brings her magic back to the Bowl 2015-08-21T04:00:00Z

And there were more conductor shenanigans, a genre mainstay of recent vintage: Bicket interrupted a tense moment in the drama to deliver a most unwelcome letter. Review: Handel’s ‘Serse,’ With Yuks and Exquisite Playing 2022-05-09T04:00:00Z

There’s a big-band flavor — slapping double bass, squealing clarinet — but the musical lines are jagged and anarchic, held together on this occasion by the young conductor Joshua Gersen, the Philharmonic’s new assistant conductor. Review: A New York Philharmonic Contact! Menu, With Esa-Pekka Salonen as Chef 2016-02-02T05:00:00Z

But as with extravagant conductor fees, it also seems unsustainable to pay star soloists huge fees. Survival Strategies for Orchestras 2011-05-25T18:35:56Z

West has long been shifting into conductor mode, and on several songs here, he is the ballast but not the focus. Kanye West’s ‘Donda’ Era, on a Chaotic Stage 2021-08-31T04:00:00Z

In a recent article in the New York Times, the conductor and pianist Daniel Barenboim identified the lack of education among audience members as “the main problem with music in the world of today.” ‘The Late Starters Orchestra,’ by Ari L. Goldman

“One of the real marks of his genius was his music was so smart without ever making you feel stupid when you listened to it,” says J. Ernest Green, a conductor and musical director. Television Review: ‘Marvin Hamlisch: What He Did for Love’ on ‘American Masters’ 2013-12-26T21:25:37Z

The strike was settled, the musicians made concessions in rehearsal rules, and a gifted new music director, the British conductor Andrea Quinn, soon came to the rescue. New York City Ballet Uses Contemporary Classical Music 2010-06-11T14:17:00Z

He is deeply enmeshed in and helping to shape music of our moment, and he made a powerful presence Tuesday, both as conductor of the fully engaged L.A. A fascinating journey into the European avant-garde 2014-12-10T05:00:00Z

The conductor Christian Thielemann put it simply: “The voice is one of the most beautiful which has been ever around.” What’s Keeping One of Opera’s Greatest Sopranos From Singing? 2017-07-04T04:00:00Z

Most of the great conductors have had a preference for either Bruckner or Mahler, Bruckner’s successor as a creator of giant late-Romantic Viennese symphonies: it’s a matter of taste. Daniel Barenboim and the Music of Anton Bruckner 2017-02-03T05:00:00Z

"The extended time off will give him the opportunity to recover fully, while also providing the Met with the chance to offer the best replacement conductors for next season." Met Opera conductor Levine withdraws through 2012-13 2011-12-09T22:48:52Z

The conductor, who accepted honorary Palestinian citizenship in 2008, famously set up an orchestra made up of young Arab and Israeli musicians, known as the East-West Divan orchestra. Barenboim in Gaza 'peace concert' 2011-05-03T13:26:49Z

“We are losing a gifted conductor,” he wrote. Austrian Conductor Dies After Collapsing Onstage in Munich 2022-07-23T04:00:00Z

He started as a pianist and worked his way up through European opera houses as a coach and conductor: a time-honored path that has come to seem a bit old-fashioned. Fabio Luisi Is to Be Met Opera?s Principal Guest Conductor 2010-04-27T21:07:00Z

But a steady stream of guest conductors and guest soloists colors each symphonic season. Search for Gerard Schwarz's successor at SSO is a broad-ranging and discreet one 2010-05-21T22:07:00Z

This dynamic conductor was originally scheduled to take over in 2020, but Mr. Levine’s suspension and later firing forced the company into action. A First for New York: New Conductors at the Met Opera and Philharmonic 2018-09-11T04:00:00Z

SEOUL, South Korea — Philadelphia Orchestra chief conductor Charles Dutoit was a longtime friend of Isang Yun, a composer jailed and then exiled by his native South Korea for visiting the North. Charles Dutoit pushes for inter-Korean orchestra 2011-07-22T05:05:10Z

The 43-year-old conductor captured the hushed eeriness of the work’s first few measures, in which the orchestra suggests the somber, mysterious mood that pervades the entire opera. Review: In ‘Pelléas,’ the Met Opera’s Music Director Takes Charge 2019-01-16T05:00:00Z

As an itinerant conductor, he finds, it’s easier to get to the places he needs to go out of New York. Gerard Schwarz assembles an ‘All-Star Orchestra’ for TV 2013-07-15T18:13:33Z

It took 17 minutes for Andris Nelsons to remind the audience why he is the most exciting conductor working in Britain today. Prom 21: CBSO/Nelsons ? review 2011-07-31T17:07:00Z

“I’m thrilled and humbled to have reached my 25th anniversary season as conductor of what is truly the one-and-only Boston Pops,” Lockhart said. High note: Lockhart marks 25 years as Boston Pops conductor 2020-02-26T05:00:00Z

The conductor, sometimes working without the baton, masterfully brought out both the details and the ensemble breadth that make this composer so satisfying. Review: Trilling birds and a sedate waltz, expertly delivered by Serkin at the SSO 2011-02-11T23:25:06Z

Alfred’s brother, Lionel, was a prolific composer, conductor and director of music at Fox. While you're 'Singin' in the Rain' at the Hollywood Bowl, he's keeping the musicians in sync 2017-08-30T04:00:00Z

The excellent violinist/conductor Joseph Swensen performs both those roles in works from the tumultuous interwar period of the 1920s and 1930s. Look Ahead: The hottest Seattle events for March 2018 2018-02-23T05:00:00Z

“Being a woman conductor, as far as I am concerned, is not a cause,” she told Duffie. Fiora Corradetti Contino, trailblazing female conductor, dies at 91 2017-03-17T04:00:00Z

The 68-year-old Russian conductor is music director of the Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg, Russia, the White Nights Festival there and is chief conductor of the Munich Philharmonic. Gergiev, Putin friend, out of Vienna Philharmonic US tour 2022-02-24T05:00:00Z

After his discharge, he went to Munich for further training as a conductor and, at 25, was named chief conductor of Bilbao’s municipal orchestra. Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, conductor known for his subtle interpretations, dies at 80

“I used to dream about this moment now I’m in it/ Tell the conductor to hold the baton a minute,” he began. No Tony Awards Show? Make Your Own With These Great Moments 2020-06-04T04:00:00Z

Female composers and conductors remain in a minority; African American singers still face challenges getting hired in works other than “Porgy and Bess” and “Show Boat.” Perspective | In theater and film, we demand that Asian roles be played by Asian actors. Why is opera different? 2017-04-27T04:00:00Z

Like Ginsberg, Willner’s effortless charm and philosophical musings are hypnotic, and transcend the music producer/conductor hat that he has worn for years. Allen Ginsberg celebrated by rock stars at the Ace Hotel in L.A. 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z

Unlike classical music groups in the U.S., the Berlin Philharmonic allows its musicians to vote for its top conductor. Berlin Philharmonic names Kirill Petrenko as new chief conductor 2015-06-22T04:00:00Z

Jarvi is one of the leading conductors in the world today. Jarvi’s insouciance gets results from the NSO 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z

The "highly regarded" conductor was hailed as "a sensitive educator" by Marc Reinhardt, a spokesman for the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts where he worked. Conductor dies after stage collapse 2015-01-30T05:00:00Z

Daniel Barenboim, the chief guest conductor at La Scala, said Wednesday that Italy's musical heritage deserves to be protected, along with La Scala's efforts in recent years to become more self-sustaining. Italian opera silenced by wildcat strikes 2010-05-06T12:09:00Z

“Could this be the next music director of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra?” the critic Scott Cantrell wrote in the Dallas Morning News, calling it “one of the most compelling guest conductor appearances in recent memory.” Fabio Luisi Will Follow Jaap van Zweden as Conductor in Dallas 2018-06-04T04:00:00Z

Two months ago, the conductor James Levine, having been fired by the Metropolitan Opera for sexual misconduct, sued the company for breach of contract and defamation. Met Opera Accuses James Levine of Decades of Sexual Misconduct 2018-05-18T04:00:00Z

West was looking forward to the Last Night of the Proms, the annual celebration that caps the series, which will be led this year by her favorite conductor, Sir Andrew Davis. The Sound of Brexit at the BBC Proms 2018-09-07T04:00:00Z

In the not-so-distant future, the orchestra will also get a new music director to replace its departing conductor. New York Philharmonic Chooses Arts Veteran as Leader 2022-06-17T04:00:00Z

Many conductors and singers delve beneath the folklore to plumb the tragic depths of these texts about courtship, war and the afterlife. Review: Esa-Pekka Salonen Brings Mahler to Carnegie, Ever So Coolly 2017-06-01T04:00:00Z

“I would wear a conductor’s cap” while clambering through cobwebs, Ms. Greene-Anderson said. Antiques: A Decades-Long Study Is Finally Published 2010-12-30T22:05:55Z

The conductor will be transitioning from a week of Beethoven to Latin American music in which he will be joined by Ruben Blades at the Bowl, and that is another way of saying anything goes.  Dudamel conducts 'Cav' and 'Pag' at the Hollywood Bowl 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z

“Some conductors will get up there and give you some strange metaphor, and you’re like, you want me to play — purple?” Nathalie Stutzmann Ushers In a New Era at the Atlanta Symphony 2022-10-05T04:00:00Z

The conductor Vladimir Jurowski, who concludes his tenure as the festival’s artistic director with this edition, emphasized in an interview the strategic importance of having visiting orchestras commit to a work by Enescu. Enescu, an Underplayed Composer, Is Still a Star in Romania 2021-10-01T04:00:00Z

The conductor left the hall in an ambulance. ArtsBeat: Riccardo Muti Collapses During Rehearsal 2011-02-03T22:38:37Z

Given the dearth of female conductors among the largest American orchestras, some have argued that the Philharmonic should choose a woman as its next music director. The Philharmonic Plans Its Return to Geffen Hall, With Fanfare 2022-03-21T04:00:00Z

There’s a new conductor in the orchestra pit – the excellent Julia Jones, in her company debut – who gracefully supports the singers while crisply illuminating the score with all of its humor and pathos. Review: Seattle Opera’s ‘Magic Flute’ is a delight for the eyes and the ears 2017-05-08T04:00:00Z

One of the great conductors of the 20th century, he was also a composer, educator, television personality and political activist who at one point hobnobbed with the Black Panthers. ?A Quiet Place? Of Dysfunction And Dystopia 2010-10-22T08:06:00Z

It's personal to the musicians who worked with him in his Orchestra Seattle and Seattle Chamber Singers, who are now orphaned by the loss of their founder/conductor. Tribute: George Shangrow, a roaring presence on Seattle's classical-music scene 2010-08-07T00:21:00Z

Each year this four-day event is programmed by a different music director — it could be a violinist, a conductor, a composer — who leaves a stamp on the offerings. In a Jam-Packed Weekend at Ojai, a Musical Family Gathers 2022-06-14T04:00:00Z

Fenton was relieved that the judge had allowed the conductor to keep associating with children: “To be debarred for life from working with the male treble voice would have been a harsh fate.” ‘I couldn’t deal with it, it tore me apart’: surviving child sexual abuse 2019-02-01T05:00:00Z

Before then, to be merely a conductor was an economic and professional impossibility. Mystery of the maestros: what are conductors for? 2012-06-01T21:55:13Z

Every so often, buried among the mezzo-sopranos, conductors and set designers, an unusual credit line jumps out of a Metropolitan Opera program. Vaudeville Authenticity at the Metropolitan Opera 2015-04-12T04:00:00Z

Many music professionals at the festival seemed simply to assume that Mr. Nelsons would soon be named to succeed Abbado as conductor of the Lucerne Festival Orchestra in future years. Andris Nelsons Gets Ready to Lead the Boston Symphony 2014-09-10T04:00:00Z

And even in forte passages, the conductor held something in reserve until, finally, unleashing the bass drum and then the orchestra in an explosion in the second half of the work. Review: At the NSO, a composer in delightful dialogue with Mozart

But when I got to the studio, it was the London Philharmonic Orchestra, and the composer and conductor was Elmer Bernstein. Corinne Bailey Rae, Sir Mark Elder and other musicians' greatest on-stage moments 2010-08-05T20:30:00Z

She is a full-time conductor but sings occasionally. Stutzmann to follow Spano as Atlanta Symphony music director 2021-10-13T04:00:00Z

Zachary Woolfe interviewed Nézet-Séguin a few weeks ago for the Times, and reported that the conductor “seemed slightly at a loss” when asked what fresh avenues he might explore at the Met. The Met Chooses Yannick Nézet-Séguin 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z

But the chance to return to Benaroya Hall, with an inspiring conductor, an eager orchestra, and a terrific program, made a minimal risk seem very worthwhile. Review: After 20-month absence, Seattle Symphony music director back to conduct before a pumped-up crowd 2021-11-12T05:00:00Z

The evening's real hero, though, is conductor Robin Ticciati, immaculate in his pacing, and breathtaking in his negotiation of the balance between Wagnerian disturbance and folk-based magic. Hansel and Gretel 2010-07-27T20:45:00Z

The conductor, Alan Gilbert, did something almost unheard of in a concert hall: He stopped the performance. Marimba ringtone halts New York Philharmonic 2012-01-13T04:17:05Z

That resonance feels particularly strong for the conductor Keri-Lynn Wilson, who is making her Metropolitan Opera debut with this production. Stalin Didn’t Like This Opera, but Audiences Still Do 2022-09-25T04:00:00Z

And as a conductor, you stand in front of this score and understand why it is so important. Preview: Seattle Opera stages Wagner's influential 'Tristan und Isolde' 2010-07-25T04:46:00Z

Then there is Andris Nelsons, a conductor who was at one point rumored as a possibility for the Berlin job. 22 Musicals, Plays, Concerts, Dances and Festivals You Can’t Miss This Spring 2018-02-20T05:00:00Z

The International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow last year brought accusations of insulting remarks by a conductor and allegations of jury unfairness. Music: Orpheus, Hilary Hahn and David Lang Start Competitions 2012-02-12T15:24:35Z

So when a young conductor wows, as a 28-year-old newly appointed Los Angeles Philharmonic assistant conductor did at her Bowl debut last August, it's big news. L.A. Phil's Mirga Grazinyte-Tyla lights a fire at Disney Hall 2015-03-02T05:00:00Z

The elder Böhm was regarded as one of the greatest conductors of his generation. Karlheinz Böhm, actor and aid worker, dies at 86

And Sir Charles Mackerras – one of the festival's favourite visiting conductors – died last month, aged 85. Edinburgh festival diary 2010-08-13T17:47:00Z

On the other hand, Stutzmann is a conductor who certainly knows how to challenge common wisdom, making for an intensely absorbing evening. Review: At the Philharmonic, a Guest Challenges Common Wisdom 2023-02-23T05:00:00Z

On Saturday morning the festival presented one of its always entertaining opera-scenes master classes in the historic Wheeler Opera House, featuring talented young singers from the opera theater and conductors from the academy. Critic’s Notebook: Aspen Music Festival Embarks on New Era 2013-07-29T21:49:03Z

The orchestra’s new conductor, Steven Reineke, took the songs at a brisk pace that allowed little room for introspection or for savoring Lerner’s meticulous turns of phrase. Music Review: ?Best of Lerner and Loewe,? at Carnegie Hall 2010-04-20T22:14:00Z

Fortunately, there are few conductors as trustworthy in the standard repertory as Manfred Honeck, who led the Philharmonic on Thursday at the Rose Theater at Jazz at Lincoln Center. Review: The New York Philharmonic Brings Back the Standards 2022-02-25T05:00:00Z

The concert allowed Andrey Boreyko to demonstrate why he figures among the more promising young Russian conductors by leading a shrewdly judged performance of Shostakovich’s enigmatic yet strangely inviting Symphony No.15. Review: A Globe-Spanning Musical Feast 2010-08-24T16:30:00Z

At 34, Leonard Bernstein was already the most marvelous of Haydn conductors, but only 20 years later was he able to unearth the essence of Mozart. Dudamel adds his dramatic touch to a night of Mendelssohn at Hollywood Bowl 2015-07-29T04:00:00Z

His replacement was the German Gerd Albrecht, the orchestra’s first foreign chief conductor, who some players hoped would be an entree to recordings, tours and general fame and fortune in the West. Jiri Belohlavek and the Czech Philharmonic Tour the U.S. 2014-11-14T05:00:00Z

The Symphony launches March with Mozart, and violinist/conductor Thomas Zehetmair will be heard in the sublime Violin Concerto No. 3. Look Ahead: The hottest Seattle events for March 2018 2018-02-23T05:00:00Z

Morris, himself a former percussionist, called Schick "a staggering percussion player, musical omnivore and gifted conductor." Percussionist Steven Schick plans a big bang for Ojai Music Festival 2015-05-29T04:00:00Z

If you tapped your foot at any of those shows, it’s largely thanks to the longtime arranger, conductor and artistic director Zalmen Mlotek, whom the event is honoring. Theater to Stream: ‘The Wolves,’ and More Archival Treasures 2021-07-21T04:00:00Z

But over the past three decades he has sustained a distinguished and productive career that has seen him working closely with conductors of the stature of Bernard Haitink, Esa-Pekka Salonen and, particularly, Simon Rattle. Mark-Anthony Turnage: A life in music 2011-01-22T07:59:00Z

Still, hearing soprano Lucy Crowe's luminous performance of "Rejoice greatly" on French conductor Emmanuelle Haïm's exquisitely phrased new live performance of Handel's oratorio is more than enough reason to rejoice greatly. Holiday music gifts: Leave the best for last-minute 2014-12-17T05:00:00Z

They are embracing their connections to promote the star conductor they will share. Boston-Leipzig Exchange: Andris Nelsons’ Orchestras Collaborate 2017-03-02T05:00:00Z

It is still all too uncommon for Chinese composers and artists — especially conductors — to be featured by American orchestras outside of Lunar New Year celebrations. Review: A Chinese Concerto and a Romantic Classic Gaze Back 2022-04-08T04:00:00Z

Throughout, conductor Borowicz maintained a lively pace, precisely executed by the Philharmonic musicians. A Polish accent to L.A. Phil New Music Group's Green Umbrella program 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z

The arrival of Mr. Noseda to the London Symphony will create a ripple effect that will lead to new titles for two of its former principal conductors. Gianandrea Noseda Named London Symphony's Principal Guest Conductor 1456-09-08T05:00:00Z

It also seemed clear that he had trouble connecting to the broad, juddering tempos set by Plácido Domingo, the conductor. Music Review: ?Madama Butterfly? at the Metropolitan Opera - Review 2011-12-08T22:28:07Z

Pierre Boulez, the distinguished composer, conductor, pianist and theorist, turns 90 on Thursday. Musicians Discuss the Influence of Pierre Boulez 2015-03-20T04:00:00Z

As conductor, pianist, organist, vocal coach and lecturer, he influenced countless singers, instrumentalists and listeners. George Fiore, former Seattle Opera chorus master, dies at 87 2013-08-30T01:50:48Z

The incisive and responsive playing in this “Rheingold” suggested that good chemistry continues between this veteran Italian conductor and the Met musicians. Music Review: This Is the (Wagner) House That Levine Built 2011-03-31T22:19:06Z

Mr. Dudamel, the Venezuelan conductor, has said that he dreamed of leading all of Mahler’s symphonies to commemorate the centennial of the composer’s death. Classical Music on Disc, on DVD and in Books 2012-11-22T21:26:23Z

That requires charisma, willpower and a quality that the conductor Charles Mackerras summarized as “emanation”: sending messages on terms beyond the physical. Elim Chan’s Flick Conducting Prize Is Rare Win for a Woman 2014-12-10T05:00:00Z

And, perhaps, when there are more female music directors, there will also be more female conductors hired for performances. A Conductor Following Family Footsteps and Blazing a Trail 2016-12-21T05:00:00Z

An admired conductor of both Wagner and contemporary works – he led the premiere of Pelléas et Mélisande, which Debussy dedicated to him – he also wrote a clutch of operas, ballets, operettas and musical comedies. Fortunio – review 2013-07-11T17:43:00Z

The Academy, which he established in 1973 as “as a sort of refugee operation for those players of period instruments who wanted to escape conductors,” initially focused on 17- and 18th-century music. Christopher Hogwood, Early-Music Devotee, Dies at 73 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z

He contrasted concertos in D major and minor, and made explicit the connections between two Mozart works — arguments that were more persuasive from the keyboard than from his perch as conductor. Review: The Philharmonic’s Artist in Residence Wears Two Hats 2023-04-16T04:00:00Z

You can safely bet on a few things whenever the conductor John Eliot Gardiner comes to town: agile, historically informed performance; obsessively precise articulation; and virtually ideal readings of beloved repertoire. Carnegie Hall’s New Season: What We Want to Hear 2023-02-28T05:00:00Z

It’s quite funny that Boulez, who as a conductor had such a reputation for fidelity to text, may not have been entirely faithful to his own scores. ‘It Needs You’: The Human Side to Boulez’s Demanding Music 2023-03-23T04:00:00Z

The keeper of this flame is the Philharmonic’s new Russian music director, Semyon Bychkov, one of the finest conductors working today. Review | Czech Philharmonic showcases musical birthright 2018-10-30T04:00:00Z

The true star of the night though was James Levine, who stood through his first full performance at the conductor's podium for seven months due to a serious back complaint. Das Rheingold 2010-09-28T09:16:00Z

“Negative attitudes toward Islam are more pervasive in Italy than elsewhere in Europe,” said Neha Sahgal, associate director for research at the Pew Center, who was a conductor of the survey. Amid an Anti-Muslim Mood, a Museum Appeals for Understanding 2018-08-17T04:00:00Z

One of Columbia’s artists was Mr. Szell, who in an early collaboration, Mr. Berg recalled, had treated him with the imperiousness for which globe-trotting symphony conductors were often famed. John Berg, Art Director Who Made Album Covers Sing, Dies at 83 2015-10-12T04:00:00Z

Three years ago, the Québécois conductor Bernard Labadie spent a month in a medically induced coma as he battled lymphoma. How a Brush With Death Changed the Next Conductor of St. Luke’s 2017-05-03T04:00:00Z

Now, all those plans and promises lay broken on the ground in deliciously odd pieces after the series’ 25-year-old lead organizer and aspiring conductor drove it full-speed, full-force into a brick wall. This is the story of the Fyre Festival of Classical music, enjoy 2017-09-14T04:00:00Z

The exhibition also includes a focused homage to Ms. Tubman, the fearless Underground Railroad “conductor,” organized with the guest curator Lowery Stokes Sims. Inspired by Harriet Tubman, an Artist Takes Glass to Extremes 2018-01-04T05:00:00Z

It’s always a nice show of commitment from conductors whose specialty is repertory from a couple hundred years after Handel. Finding ‘Hallelujah’: How to Navigate the ‘Messiah’ Landscape 2017-12-06T05:00:00Z

Mr. Salonen certainly proved himself a stunning conductor of repertory works this spring, when he led the most rapturous and truly electrifying “Elektra” you could hope to hear. Is Yannick Nézet-Séguin Worth the Wait at the Met? 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z

Young Conductor at the Forefront of His Field A big ego might seem to be a fundamental attribute of an orchestral conductor. Young Conductor at the Forefront of His Field 2010-04-20T11:45:00Z

A few clients placed orders around 1933, including Amelia Earhart and the conductor Leopold Stokowski. Antiques: Dymaxion Cars, Americana Auctions and French Gilded Art 2011-01-13T22:41:34Z

Colin Davis's recuperation from illness undoubtedly reset some of the dials for this programme of Elgar and Mozart, two composers in whose music the veteran British conductor particularly excels. LSO/Sado – review 2013-01-15T18:29:01Z

LUKE’S For his first season as this ensemble’s leader, Bernard Labadie is focusing on Haydn, a composer who tests a conductor’s mettle. Classical Fall Preview: Debuts, Premieres, a New Philharmonic Maestro 2018-09-12T04:00:00Z

The orchestra is set up in the shape of a bird, with the strings arranged in a horseshoe intersected by a line formed by the conductor, a piano and the percussion instruments. Two Juilliard Concerts, Bonded by Weather 2015-02-01T05:00:00Z

"He's really at home with the language so it's already a cross-cultural piece in that way," said Kennedy, who also is the festival's resident conductor. Production reflects Spoleto's international flavor 2013-06-08T18:29:08Z

Guest conductor Leslie B. Dunner understood the sonic beauty and rhythmic snap of Davis' orchestration and encouraged the Sinfonietta to play it to the hilt. 'Concerto for a Genius' shows promise, but needs more fire from the piano 2011-01-16T15:56:00Z

Last year, Valery Gergiev was their conductor, and the orchestra played on the East Coast, at the London Proms and in Russia. National Youth Orchestra is sensational at Disney Hall 2014-08-05T04:00:00Z

Czech conductor will lead the orchestra, and the audience, in Elgar's Pomp and Circumstance, Sir Hubert Parry's Jerusalem, and the National Anthem. Last Night of Proms in 3D cinemas 2012-08-22T11:37:28Z

Some speculated about whether the individuals were ejected from the hall by the conductor, or if they were asked to move and left on their own initiative. Michael Tilson Thomas explains concert incident involving woman, child 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z

“He’d written that these conductors conducted this part in two, these conductors conducted it in four,” Mr. Rattle recalled, referring to conducting patterns. Simon Rattle: The Maestro With the Busy Baton 2016-11-06T04:00:00Z

Her great-great-grandfather, a free man of color, was a conductor on the underground railroad. ‘Finding Your Roots’ on PBS premieres Season 2 at MoMA 2014-09-17T04:00:00Z

Liszt, most prophetic of the Romantic composers, paradigm of the virtuoso pianist, proto-modern conductor and promoter of musical talent wherever he found it, was involved with opera all his life. Review | Franz Liszt’s unfinished ‘Sardanapalo’ opera makes its U.S. premiere at Library of Congress 2019-04-28T04:00:00Z

The conductor sneaks in, then cues the sustained low E flats in the orchestra that begin the piece so mysteriously. Music Review: At Met, the New ?Ring? Is Mostly a Success 2010-09-28T06:30:00Z

That’s a meaningless distinction for the many people excited by the adventurous programs the dynamic young conductor Teddy Abrams and his excellent players have been giving. Carnegie Hall’s New Season: Here’s What We Want to Hear 2020-01-28T05:00:00Z

Kudos to the Globes orchestra conductor, who wisely kept his hands in his pockets for these speeches. 2010-01-18T05:46:00Z

The current tour, which stops Saturday at Disney Hall and Sunday at Segerstrom Concert Hall in Costa Mesa, is the conductor and orchestra’s last in North America together. Simon Rattle's farewell tour with the Berlin Philharmonic swings into L.A. and Costa Mesa 2016-11-15T05:00:00Z

Munich Mayor Dieter Reiter threatened to remove Gergiev as chief conductor of the Munich Philharmonic unless Gergiev publicly said by Monday that he does not support Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Verbier says Gergiev resigns as festival head at its request 2022-02-28T05:00:00Z

A conductor might be an acclaimed musician, but a poor fit for an orchestra whose players thrive on collaboration and not autocracy. Seattle Symphony picks Thomas Dausgaard to succeed Ludovic Morlot as music director 2017-10-03T04:00:00Z

The company lost a star tenor, then a star soprano, then a conductor, then another conductor, and then a villain. What’s on TV Friday: ‘Queer Eye’ and ‘Wyatt Cenac’s Problem Areas’ 2018-06-15T04:00:00Z

That led to a position as assistant conductor at the Boston Symphony and the beginning of his career. Tanglewood Batons: Thomas, Dohnanyi and Mena 2010-07-08T22:06:00Z

In the concert hall, conductors like to show otherwise. The Los Angeles Philharmonic and those Russians 2017-02-03T05:00:00Z

The next year he was named principal conductor; a few years later, music director; and in 1983, artistic director. Ronald A. Wilford, Manager to a Host of Legendary Maestros, Dies at 87 2015-06-13T04:00:00Z

Down in the pit another kind of fairy tale was unfolding: Robin Ticciati, a baby-faced British conductor recently named music director of the Glyndebourne Festival Opera, had an impressive Met debut. Music Review: ?Hansel and Gretel? at Metropolitan Opera - Review 2011-12-18T22:44:20Z

Liberty Mutual, the event's sponsor, announced Wednesday that Keith will join conductor Keith Lockhart and the Boston Pops for the annual Fourth of July concert and fireworks show on the banks of the Charles River. Toby Keith to join Boston Pops on July 4 2010-06-09T17:43:00Z

The vocal sections were the best, in a crisply defined performance from members of the Washington Chorus, with their new music director, Christopher Bell, serving as conductor when Riesman’s hands were otherwise occupied. Review | ‘Koyaanisqatsi,’ film and soundtrack, back at Kennedy Center 2018-03-18T04:00:00Z

The composer and conductor Pierre Boulez made it his life’s work to render orchestras more modern, and for this Bartok recording, he turned to new technology: Quadrophonic sound, an early precursor of today’s surround sound. 100 Years of New York Philharmonic Milestones, by the Earful 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z

After all, his tenure in Berlin, which began in 2002 and will end in 2018, has been a bracing antidote to the notion that conductors prove themselves solely in the totemic standards. Berlin Philharmonic’s Beethoven Marathon at Carnegie Prompts Some Head-Scratching 2015-11-16T05:00:00Z

The conductor and Mr. Thibaudet were clearly on the same page for their performance of the Liszt concerto. Music Review | Yannick N?zet-S?guin: Youthful Intensity, Onstage and in the Program 2010-02-19T04:51:00Z

As a young conductor, he refused to change his name, even if that was what success required. Review: Nice Music, but in ‘Maestro’ He Doesn’t Look a Thing Like Lenny 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z

The conductor calls this process "a nostalgic trip for me," because in some cases these musical relationships stretch back more than 40 years. SSO's Schwarz goes out with fanfare: 18 new pieces by U.S. composers debut this season 2010-10-07T19:38:00Z

A year later she decided upon a life as a conductor. The 101 strangest records on Spotify: Kay Gardner – Mooncircles 2013-05-29T07:00:00Z

Dudamel’s Ninth, on that first outing, was one of an enthusiastic conductor sharing the enchantment of a discovery. Europe Concert Diary: A powerful, commanding Thielemann in Cologne 2014-09-10T04:00:00Z

In Act 2, set in the Magic Garden of the sorcerer Klingsor, who behaves like a mad orchestra conductor, the suffering is palpable. Opera Review: Wagner, Sleek but Deep 2011-02-08T12:30:06Z

A 26-year-old Venezuelan conductor made the orchestra the embodiment of Hungarian folk music while at the same time giving it an unmistakable Latin accent — and  a new and different life. Gustavo Dudamel's inner Hungarian returns 2016-06-03T04:00:00Z

The extraordinary Russian conductor had become addicted to nonstop touring. Russia's secret weapon? Valery Gergiev and the rapturous music of the Mariinsky Orchestra 2017-11-02T04:00:00Z

But once the selection committee decided on the Italian conductor, it wanted to move fast to sign him. Kennedy Center president lures high-priced stars yet sparks an exodus among senior staff 2017-07-18T04:00:00Z

According to his official website, the conductor is still scheduled to appear with the Simon Bolivar Symphony Orchestra in July. Gustavo Dudamel sidelined by back ailment 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z

The conductor recently told me that using period instruments for this repertory is what he loves doing best. French Baroque treasure rescued in stormy 'Medea' 2011-04-24T22:52:00Z

The performance in Beijing by one of the world’s top orchestras, led by the legendary conductor Eugene Ormandy, was therefore no small event. ArtsBeat: Philadelphia Orchestra Tours China 40 Years After Historic Visit 2013-06-07T16:41:48Z

Women are winning plum jobs as assistant and guest conductors, typically steppingstones to prestigious posts. Top Orchestras Have No Female Conductors. Is Change Coming? 2021-09-10T04:00:00Z

Mr. Hogwood was hardly the first conductor to advocate for historically informed performance, known as HIP. Christopher Hogwood, conductor who gave new drive to classical warhorses, dies at 73

Officially Mr. Luisi’s title was bumped up from principal guest conductor to principal conductor. The New Season: Fabio Luisi Steps In for Levine at Met Opera 2011-09-16T19:40:59Z

Playing regularly in ensembles and orchestras under expert coaches and conductors is also important. Music Review: National Youth Orchestra Takes Purchase; Washington Is Next 2013-07-12T21:08:59Z

After serving as assistant conductor to James DePreist at the Oregon Symphony, he went on to guest conduct the London Symphony, the Scottish Chamber Orchestra and the National Symphony Orchestra. The University of Washington School of Music offers eclectic lineup 2010-10-20T23:30:00Z

The Carnegie concert was conducted by the veteran maestro Nikolai Alexeev, who was variously identified in the program book as the Philharmonic’s permanent conductor and deputy artistic director. Reviews: Chelsea Music Festival, Gregg Kallor and St. Petersburg Philharmonic 2015-06-14T04:00:00Z

When he refused, the conductor summoned a police constable who pushed him off the train. ‘Gandhi Before India’ Shows How the Mahatma Was Made 2014-05-13T04:00:00Z

Mr. Noseda, an Italian-born conductor who has worked extensively in opera, boldly draws out the score’s operatic elements, as in his stunning account of the fitful Dies Irae, while vividly conveying its overall organic structure. Britten’s ‘War Requiem’ by Gianandrea Noseda 2012-09-29T23:03:03Z

Freeman, 75, is among the handful of African-American conductors who have risen to world prominence over the past 40 years. Freeman bids fond farewell to diverse Sinfonietta 2011-05-18T15:28:00Z

And though his catalog fell into neglect after World War II, it has been enjoying a sustained revival campaign in recent decades, thanks to the efforts of conductors like James Conlon. 5 Things to Do This Weekend 2021-09-23T04:00:00Z

She said she is also always thinking about how to bring in more female musicians, composers and conductors. Balloons, iPads, Aquarium: A Conductor Creates a ‘Creation’ 2018-07-18T04:00:00Z

As a conductor, Mr. Adams brought an obvious command of the metric complexities of the score to his performance. Music Review: President and Opera, on Unexpected Stages 2011-02-03T17:34:09Z

He arrives at an economically challenging time for the Pasadena Symphony and Pops and following the departure of the group's top two conductors. Marvin Hamlisch named Pasadena Pops conductor 2010-08-27T18:33:00Z

Then the picture will widen to feature the Tri-Centric Orchestra, led by three separate conductors, each fulfilling a separate function. The Tri-Centric Festival Honors Anthony Braxton 2011-10-04T21:19:10Z

There are also plans for more offbeat repertoire, including Bohuslav Martinu’s “The Greek Passion,” which tells the story of a Greek village staging a Passion play, in a production led by the conductor Maxime Pascal. Amid Global Turmoil, Salzburg Festival Plans a Summer of Reflection 2022-12-09T05:00:00Z

Chief conductors at the Concertgebouw Orchestra are elected by the players, who were in no rush to make a decision until they found what felt like a right fit. At 26, the Conductor Klaus Mäkelä’s Star Keeps Rising and Rising 2022-12-02T05:00:00Z

For a conductor to use the opportunity of a Met production to learn “La Traviata” doesn’t seem the best idea. Music Review: In Revival of Verdi, a New Note of Drama 2010-03-30T21:48:00Z

But that is hard to do with as curious a program as the one the Russian conductor Vladimir Jurowski presented with the London Philharmonic Orchestra on Wednesday night. Music Review: Vladimir Jurowski and London Philharmonic Orchestra - Review 2011-12-10T00:28:17Z

At the height of her career, Price tried to convince Serge Koussevitzky — conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra — to program her music. Black Composers Discuss the Role of Race 2014-08-08T04:00:00Z

Last month he was named the Met’s principal conductor, becoming, as Anthony Tommasini wrote in The New York Times, “the company’s music director in all but name.” Old-Fashioned Approach to Met?s New ?Don Giovanni? 2011-10-09T03:45:05Z

At dawn, the conductor brought me a brioche and a café au lait in a paper cup, which I sipped as the Loire Valley flew by. Europe’s night trains are disappearing, but the allure endures for enthusiasts 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z

The important thing is that there has been no appreciable let-up in the quality of the orchestra's playing under the fill-in conductors. Andsnes' commanding Brahms lifts Muti-less CSO concert out of the ordinary 2011-02-18T16:33:00Z

But the conductor asks his star to dig deeper. Born to Conduct: Film charts Met music director’s ascent 2021-07-01T04:00:00Z

Instead, Wevers and Banks are conjuring what you might call an "essence of Cavafy" by slipping dancers, musicians and conductor alike into identical costumes. 'Approaching Ecstasy': a dance-choral excursion with Whim W'Him and guests 2012-05-09T21:32:04Z

That the brilliant Canadian conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin, 41, will become the next music director of the Metropolitan Opera is not much of a surprise. Is Yannick Nézet-Séguin Worth the Wait at the Met? 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z

The festival’s artistic and executive director, Michael Haefliger, said the conductor wished “to no longer collaborate with someone he felt was not being a good partner.” H?l?ne Grimaud and Claudio Abbado Part Ways 2011-10-30T22:37:26Z

Charles Daniels' high tenor going up into falsetto range – as Purcell describes the deities' approval of Cecilia's bestowing of universal harmony – was just one example of conductor Paul McCreesh's meticulous approach to authentic practice. Bath MozartFest – review 2012-11-12T17:28:09Z

Ms. Malkki, in addition to being the chief conductor of the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra in Finland, is the principal guest conductor of the Los Angeles Philharmonic. Review: Susanna Malkki Returns to the New York Philharmonic 2019-10-20T04:00:00Z

Few programmers mine hidden corners of the orchestral repertory as avidly and shrewdly as Leon Botstein, the orchestra’s music director and conductor. Music Review | American Symphony Orchestra: Loosening the Reins on Composers After Stalin 2010-03-01T05:50:00Z

"But a conductor is like a good wine that needs a few years to develop and mature." Conductor Marc Minkowski: horses, Mozart made for each other 2014-07-30T04:00:00Z

Urban Arias, a scrappy assemblage founded six years ago by conductor Robert Wood, specializes in small-scale 21st-century American operas. From Urban Arias, an intimately composed look at a mind unraveled 2016-10-16T04:00:00Z

“He was also having an extraordinary career as a conductor on the international stage,” says Shawn. Seattle Symphony to perform ‘Wonderful Town’ in honor of Leonard Bernstein’s centennial 2018-06-06T04:00:00Z

Marsh’s December concert presented four of the six cantatas of Bach’s “Christmas Oratorio”; Patrick Rucker, in The Washington Post, called him “a superb choral conductor, energetic and precise.” Perspective | Early music, fresh start: A new leader for Washington Bach Consort 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z

He was appointed assistant conductor of the Boston Symphony in 2004 and was soon guest gigging in New York and Chicago. Seattle conductor Ludovic Morlot at the helm of the L.A. Phil for 'Become Ocean' 2015-11-13T05:00:00Z

After 29 seasons leading the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Seiji Ozawa became the principal conductor at the Vienna State Opera in 2002. Gustavo Dudamel Hasn’t Conducted Much Opera. That’s OK. 2021-04-18T04:00:00Z

A fine conductor in his own right, Mr. Adès also takes the podium for the overture to Berlioz’s “Les Francs-juges,” and Beethoven’s First Symphony. Opera & Classical Music Listings for March 6-12 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z

Among them was Guido Cantelli, 36, a “comet of a conductor,” as one critic called him, and the protégé of Arturo Toscanini. A Conductor’s Career, Cut Short, Still Blazes on Recordings 2022-07-05T04:00:00Z

The company captured the concert using a rig of 14 GoPro cameras in front of conductor Guy Noble, plus another camera in front of the musicians. L.A. Philharmonic's Van Beethoven takes virtual reality for a classical spin 2015-09-24T04:00:00Z

Mr. Perlman’s program, in which he is both soloist and conductor, closes the season on May 14. ArtsBeat: Minnesota Orchestra Musicians to Play a 10-Concert Season 2013-12-13T20:55:40Z

The conductor wanted the chords more distinct, so they would register farther back in the audience. Tanglewood Batons: Thomas, Dohnanyi and Mena 2010-07-08T22:06:00Z

He concurrently serves as chief conductor of the Rotterdam Philharmonic — its youngest ever — and principal guest conductor of the Vienna Symphony. Young maestro takes baton as Israel Philharmonic's Zubin Mehta ends 50-year tenure 2019-10-24T04:00:00Z

So as a young conductor, he steered clear. Simon Rattle: The Maestro With the Busy Baton 2016-11-06T04:00:00Z

Winner of two international competitions and formerly assistant conductor of the Boston Symphony, Sung is chief conductor of the Gyeonggi Philharmonic. Guest conductor Sung makes inconclusive NSO debut 2015-07-12T04:00:00Z

Though he admits to enjoying the “slings and arrows and diva hissy fits and conductors smashing batons” of the opera world, he acknowledges that it has “distanced me from the pop world.” Rufus Wainwright’s 10-Year Journey Back to Judy Garland 2016-06-04T04:00:00Z

Paradoxically it is often felt more keenly by those in the uppermost rows of the theater than by those seated near the conductor. Critic?s Notebook: At City Ballet This Winter, You Could Sometimes See the Music 2011-02-28T23:15:07Z

Christian Curnyn, the conductor, led a buoyant, stylish performance that showed the orchestra’s estimable feel for Handel’s idiom. Music Review: Mozart, Puccini, Handel and Copland at Glimmerglass 2010-08-09T22:43:00Z

But to conductor David Robertson, who had co-commissioned the piece with the BBC Proms and Carnegie Hall, the delay was "great news." At SSO: Adams' 'Doctor Atomic Symphony' 2011-12-29T21:18:04Z

The conductor had suggested it to my parents, after I was offered similar bursaries by Shrewsbury and Westminster. ‘I couldn’t deal with it, it tore me apart’: surviving child sexual abuse 2019-02-01T05:00:00Z

But a shooting incident with a conductor was only a joke. Glenn Dicterow Discusses Leaving New York Philharmonic 2014-06-24T04:00:00Z

Most top conductors have long-term contracts with orchestras. Critic?s Notebook: A Maestro?s Unfinished Legacy 2011-03-03T23:23:55Z

Even in a good performance of this well-known staple, it’s hard for a conductor’s work to stand out against the singers’ voices, which usually claim our attention. Review: In Her Met Debut, a Conductor Leads a Fresh ‘La Bohème’ 2021-11-10T05:00:00Z

The orchestral arrangements — by Nico Muhly, Maxim Moston and the orchestra’s conductor, Rob Moose — were almost tidal, often building from a few sparse piano notes to panoramic chordal crests, or working through stormy transformations. Music Review: Antony and the Johnsons at Radio City Music Hall 2012-01-28T01:02:07Z

The chorus was outstanding throughout, beautifully controlled and responsive to Noseda’s energetic gesticulations — in big operas or choral pieces like this one, the conductor often appears to be singing the whole thing himself. Review | Noseda and the NSO rise to ‘Unexpected’ challenge at Carnegie Hall 2019-05-20T04:00:00Z

Mr Phillips' new role will see him work alongside Sir Mark with the full Halle Orchestra and act as music director and chief conductor for its younger members. Orchestra names young conductor 2012-06-28T12:53:07Z

In summer 1979, an emerging 29-year-old conductor was invited back to the Hollywood Bowl after having made his successful debut in the amphitheater with the Los Angeles Philharmonic two years earlier. 'The Poet in Exile' at the Wallis lacks full picture of Walter Arlen 2015-10-30T04:00:00Z

One might have thought so from recent programs presented in New York by two of today’s most dynamic and acclaimed younger conductors. Are Bruckner Symphonies Now the Proving Ground for Conductors? 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z

In June, the British conductor Daniel Harding withdrew for family reasons. Substitutes shine in 'Traviata' at the Hollywood Bowl 2015-08-11T04:00:00Z

The 80th and 85th birthdays of British composer Sir Harrison Birtwistle and Dutch conductor Bernard Haitink respectively will be marked by a series of concerts. Shaw brings Toibin play to Barbican 2013-10-29T10:43:46Z

The violinist and conductor Jaime Laredo, the program’s longtime director, leads two concerts at Carnegie Hall, including a Christmas Eve program that has become a tradition for many music lovers. Opera and Classical Music Listings for Dec. 20-26 2013-12-19T23:11:38Z

The Philharmonic’s talented assistant conductor, Daniel Boico, stepped in, leading a smoldering performance that featured sensitive and subtle work from Ms. Phelps and Ms. Young. Music Review: Orchestral Recitations Of 2 Symphonic Poems 2011-04-14T22:04:47Z

In November, the guest conductor Michael Tilson Thomas dealt with a bronchial audience at a Chicago Symphony Orchestra concert by tossing cough lozenges into the crowd in between movements of Mahler’s Ninth. Critic’s Notebook: Maestro at Work: Hold That Cough 2013-12-31T22:27:31Z

The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra announced on Thursday that it had chosen Jonathon Heyward, a rising African American conductor, as its next music director. Baltimore Symphony’s New Conductor Breaks a Racial Barrier 2022-07-21T04:00:00Z

Gluck’s 1774 “Paris version” score, rich with tuneful arias and orchestral interludes, came to life in the hands of conductor Stephen Stubbs, who gave a warm, well-paced, and surprisingly zippy account of the music. Imaginative ‘Orphée’ melds period authenticy, innovation 2016-05-23T04:00:00Z

The orchestra’s incoming chief conductor, Daniele Gatti will open the fall season with a new tradition this year: RCO Opening Night, a black-tie affair that kicks off the season with classical music hits. What's on This Week Around the World 2015-09-04T04:00:00Z

In an interview, the group’s conductor, Donald Nally said, “We paid a very, very high percentage of all the contracts of all the artists” for dates through the summer. Neither Big Nor Small, Music Ensembles Struggle in a Pandemic 2020-06-12T04:00:00Z

Seattle pianist Wayne Horvitz directs an illustrious cast of improvisers in a spontaneous "conduction," in which players, without written music, respond to the movements of the conductor. Earshot Jazz Festival: Think global, book local 2012-10-04T19:27:04Z

The music director of Canada's Windsor Symphony Orchestra will take up the baton as conductor of the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra. Canadian to be new conductor of Cincinnati Pops 2010-12-06T20:44:00Z

One reason there aren’t more female conductors is likely that symphony orchestras are highly traditional entities. Conducting’s glass podium: Female music directors are still rare, but the Northwest has nurtured some 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z

In June, the eminent violinist and conductor Pinchas Zukerman was widely denounced after he invoked racist stereotypes about Asians during a Juilliard master class. Asians Are Represented in Classical Music. But Are They Seen? 2021-07-21T04:00:00Z

In October, the conductor fell ill and canceled the majority of his appearances, two weeks into what was to be a month-long residency. Muti to have surgery after fall during CSO rehearsal 2011-02-04T21:40:00Z

The conductor’s apologists argue that these recordings convey an unspoken resistance to the Nazi regime. Making Art in a Time of Rage 2017-02-08T05:00:00Z

The new conductor was more of an impresario than the last one. Riding the Rails to the Summer of Love 2016-09-06T04:00:00Z

During his years as conductor, 53 new musicians joined the orchestra, and it performed 40 world premieres. Rattle bids Berlin Philharmonic farewell as chief conductor 2018-06-24T04:00:00Z

Not long after, he started as the chief conductor of the Tampere Philharmonic Orchestra — a tenure that comes to an end with the coming season. A Conductor Who Knows His Way Around a Score, and a Farm 2022-07-29T04:00:00Z

One of those composers required an escort, but he found an apt one in guest conductor Andrew Manze. Delightful evening of Bach, and those he inspired, at SSO 2011-10-29T17:24:05Z

Salonen said that while these conductors were overseeing the festival, they were also letting the individual groups chose what they want to present to audiences. California’s Leading Conductors Come Together for a New Festival 2023-01-31T05:00:00Z

When he’s good, he’s so good that he simply has to be counted among the great conductors of the day. Lorin Maazel, an Intense and Enigmatic Conductor, Dies at 84 2014-07-13T04:00:00Z

It was not the most propulsive “Fledermaus,” but under the Hungarian conductor Adam Fischer the Met orchestra played with honeyed tone and bright muscle. Opera Review: Die Fledermaus at the Met, via Douglas Carter Beane 2014-01-01T16:04:50Z

This season Carnegie will prominently feature Valery Gergiev, the Russian conductor and friend of Vladimir Putin, who will perform a series of concerts with both the Vienna Philharmonic and the Mariinsky Orchestra. Carnegie Hall Counts Down to Its Reopening 2021-10-01T04:00:00Z

Who, in other words, will the storied, headstrong Berlin Philharmonic choose when its membership votes on May 11 for a chief conductor to replace Simon Rattle, who is stepping down in 2018? Daniel Barenboim’s Festtage Performance Makes Case for Inheriting Berlin Philharmonic 2015-04-05T04:00:00Z

He also said it was necessary for the conductor to tune all the tom-tom drums together with the instruments’ players at least an hour before the performance, and asked if Mr. Rattle had done so. 109 Players. 3 Conductors. It’s Even Harder Than It Sounds. 2018-06-29T04:00:00Z

Still, this was not a total bust for the conductor and orchestra. Ageless at 90, Tony Bennett brings his eternal spring to Dudamel and the L.A. Phil 2017-07-16T04:00:00Z

He was also principal conductor of the European Union Youth Orchestra from 1994-2000. Bernard Haitink, renowned Dutch conductor, dies at 92 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z

That symmetry was already expressed in the spatial arrangement of the singers, who, surrounding the audience, stood in four groups facing one another, with Donald Nally, the conductor, at the center. Review: ‘Canticles of the Holy Wind’ Summons the Elements at the Met 2016-10-30T04:00:00Z

The group braced for a reprimand, but instead the conductor said, “That’s awesome,” gave a thumbs up, and returned to his post. A Stand-Up Set at the Swipe of a MetroCard 2021-04-02T04:00:00Z

“He didn’t do anything evil, not like other conductors or composers who ignored the destiny of Jewish musicians.” On Deck,The Met?s Pinch-Hitter 2011-04-21T13:39:32Z

However I need no further education since I am a classically trained musician myself, studied music at the Manhattan School of Music and have worked with conductors for several years. With James Levine Fired, Should We Rethink Maestro Worship? 2018-03-13T04:00:00Z

Clearly aware of the opera’s problems, Mr. Adams spent last summer revising the score before it traveled to the Dutch National Opera with the same production, cast and conductor, Grant Gershon, this week. Review: John Adams’s Newest Opera Returns to the Gold Mines 2019-03-01T05:00:00Z

On paper, this week’s New York Philharmonic program had plenty going for it: balance, an up-and-coming conductor, an established soloist. Review: A Rising Star Debuts With the Philharmonic 2023-04-28T04:00:00Z

You also find that he was not at all the invariably slow, monumental conductor he is often remembered as. A Conductor’s Impossible Legacy 2021-10-14T04:00:00Z

Luisi is chief conductor of the Vienna Symphony and artistic director of Japan's Pacific Music Festival in Sapporo. Luisi appointed Met's principal guest conductor 2010-04-27T23:37:00Z

After Netflix released the first trailer for Bradley Cooper's "Maestro," many critics took issue with Cooper wearing a prosthetic nose to portray Jewish composer and conductor Leonard Bernstein, accusing the actor of performing in "Jewface." Bradley Cooper accused of “Jewface” for donning prosthetic nose in Leonard Bernstein drama “Maestro” 2023-08-16T04:00:00Z

The conductor Patrick Summers, a seasoned hand in Mr. Heggie’s music, provided a gracious, lyrical flow and suitably stormy climaxes. Music Review: In ?Moby-Dick? in Dallas, Big Role for the Roiling Sea 2010-05-02T22:07:00Z

Kurt Crowley, an original member of “Hamilton” music team — he was an associate conductor and then the Broadway music director — became the point person for the project. They Translated ‘Hamilton’ Into German. Was It Easy? Nein. 2022-09-14T04:00:00Z

In 2014, Willis received permission from Matthew Halls, guest conductor, and Joseph Crnko, Seattle Symphony associate conductor for choral activities, to join the bass section of the Seattle Symphony Chorale for performances of the Ninth. Alastair Willis brings insights to conducting Beethoven’s Ninth 2017-12-22T05:00:00Z

Wachner is a conductor, or a composer, or a keyboard player, depending on which week and which city you happen to pick. A polymath in D.C.: The long ascendancy of conductor-composer Julian Wachner

There are these preconceived notions about what a conductor’s life looks like, and the reality is the exact opposite. A New Film Shines a Light on Women Conductors 2023-06-03T04:00:00Z

He also brought an easy, authoritative style to bear as an eloquent soloist, chamber musician, a respected teacher and a noted conductor. Joseph Silverstein, Longtime Boston Symphony Orchestra Concertmaster, Dies at 83 2015-11-27T05:00:00Z

Carol Diann Johnson was born in the Bronx borough of New York City on July 17, 1935, daughter of a subway conductor, and began singing with her Harlem church choir at age 6, according to IMDB.com. Diahann Carroll, TV trailblazer for black women, dead at 84 2019-10-04T04:00:00Z

Fisch, who is Seattle Opera's principal guest conductor, explains that 19th-century audiences often used the term "drugged" to describe the result of hearing the "Tristan" score. Preview: Seattle Opera stages Wagner's influential 'Tristan und Isolde' 2010-07-25T04:46:00Z

My dad went up to the conductor and said, "My daughter would like to sing with the band", and so I did. Petula Clark: 'John Lennon gave me some advice that I can't repeat' 2013-02-20T16:52:41Z

At one London concert during the 1820s, the audience was treated to demonstrations of electric eels, according to the pianist, conductor and historian Joel Sachs, who is on the faculty of the Juilliard School. Bar and Bathroom Lines, Molto Adagio 2014-04-18T20:59:14Z

But in part because of his reputation as an opera conductor, the philharmonic’s decision caught many by surprise. Meet the New Generation Leading Berlin’s Classical Scene 2018-01-19T05:00:00Z

There doesn't seem to be a conductor anywhere. YouTube, now with instant vuvuzela sound 2010-06-24T18:54:00Z

Robert Spano and the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and Chorus followed with a fine performance at Carnegie Hall in April, commemorating the centenary of Shaw himself, long the orchestra’s conductor, and the chorus’s founder. The Best Classical Music of 2016 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z

As a conductor, baton technique was not his strong point, but there was an innate musicality and sensitivity in him, an understanding of singers and what they needed.” Bruno Bartoletti, Maestro Who Shaped Lyric Opera of Chicago, Dies at 86 2013-06-14T02:00:47Z

There are high hopes for Finnish conductor Susanna Malkki, chief conductor of the Helsinki Philharmonic. The L.A. Phil's mesmerizing Mirga Grazinyte-Tyla leaps to the Birmingham orchestra 2016-02-05T05:00:00Z

The train conductor hit the brakes at the Hamlin property and dropped the party off at the wedding site. Olympian Erin Hamlin Marries a Childhood Playmate 2018-08-03T04:00:00Z

Surely the role of the arts council should be to nurture the arts, not subsidise the millionaire lifestyles of "star" singers, conductors, performers? Arts council funding questions: the Q&A digested 2011-03-31T17:09:17Z

Riccardo Muti, the production’s conductor and the “honorary conductor for life” at the Rome Opera, is not known to suffer gladly either fools or divas. Opera Review: Anna Netrebko in ‘Manon Lescaut,’ at the Rome Opera 2014-03-03T17:53:28Z

After each concert, players are given forms to fill in asking for their opinion about a new or returning guest conductor. Andris Nelsons 2010-06-05T23:05:00Z

Dutoit conducted the first performance, which took place in Tokyo in 2001, and has since championed the score in Philadelphia, where he is in his penultimate season as chief conductor of the Philadelphia Orchestra. CSO and soloists shine under Dutoit, but Penderecki piece is dull 2011-03-18T17:25:13Z

The conductor decided he didn’t want anything on the menu, so he called a nearby Japanese joint and had sushi delivered — to the Chinese place. Less pomp, more art for 2015 Kennedy Center Honors 2015-12-06T05:00:00Z

Eventually, they arrived at the plan to spend five years with him as artistic partner until 2027, with a commitment of five seasons as chief conductor to follow. At 26, the Conductor Klaus Mäkelä’s Star Keeps Rising and Rising 2022-12-02T05:00:00Z

The suit names Bard’s president, Leon Botstein, a music scholar and conductor who has run the school for 45 years, as one of the defendants. Bard College Music Student Sues School, Citing Instructor’s Conduct 2020-05-21T04:00:00Z

Disguised as Leopold, the great conductor, Bugs exacts operatic revenge, then plays a victory tune on his banjo. Wuvwy Music 2015-05-22T04:00:00Z

“I hope you will join your colleagues in helping the Met stay strong in the coming seasons,” Mr. Gelb wrote in the letter, which is being sent to singers, conductors, directors, designers and choreographers. Met Asks Stars to Share Fiscal Pain 2014-11-12T05:00:00Z

At that time, the orchestra had a reputation for being very rough on conductors. Musicians' notes on Gerard Schwarz 2011-06-08T19:32:04Z

Then they turned to a new work, “A Land Out of Earth?” written by a conductor of the orchestra, Mohammad Qambar Nawshad. Far From Kabul, Building a New Life, With Music and Hope 2022-07-13T04:00:00Z

Robert Shaw, who was America’s foremost conductor of choral music, called him the greatest art-song composer of his time. Ned Rorem, Composer Known for Both His Music and His Diaries, Dies at 99 2022-11-18T05:00:00Z

Ms. Chen said she was contacted by the orchestra and invited to perform with it as a guest conductor, effectively an audition. At a Chicago Orchestra, Diversity Is on the Program 2010-08-06T19:35:00Z

In his ruling, the judge apparently drew attention to the fact that the conductor had recently married and had a child, arguing that in doing so he had entered a new phase of life. ‘I couldn’t deal with it, it tore me apart’: surviving child sexual abuse 2019-02-01T05:00:00Z

She added, “He is very strong and probably, like most of the conductors, used to dominate the artistic process.” H?l?ne Grimaud and Claudio Abbado Part Ways 2011-10-30T22:37:26Z

He did so, in part, because La Stupenda so obviously needed him to sustain her long career and, in part, because, as a conductor, he was so considerate of singers' needs. In praise of ? Richard Bonynge 2010-10-12T23:05:00Z

Leader of the Band The groom said that for many years, his father, Fernando Pasqualone, a musician, was a conductor at Radio City Music Hall. Always a Bride and Groom, Now Together as a Married Couple 2021-07-30T04:00:00Z

After Rodzinski discouraged the violinist Everett Lee from auditioning for the Philharmonic because of his race, Lee formed one of the nation’s first racially integrated orchestras, the Cosmopolitan Symphony Society, and became its conductor. Let’s Make the Future That the ‘New World’ Symphony Predicted 2021-03-17T04:00:00Z

"This is all providing a model for the future of Afghanistan," said William Harvey, the Afghan orchestra's American conductor and arranger. Young Afghan musicians in NY for date at Carnegie 2013-02-12T10:31:05Z

“It was usual in the 1930s, ’40s, ’50s that opera conductors were first coaches for years and years in some small theater. Old-Fashioned Approach to Met?s New ?Don Giovanni? 2011-10-09T03:45:05Z

But the sound design is just fine, with conductor Michael Christie creating an unobjectionable balance between acoustical and electronic sounds and keeping the opera moving along. The man, the machine and now Steve Jobs, the opera 2017-07-27T04:00:00Z

Yet here, with a terrific cast, an imaginative director and a dynamic young conductor, this bleakly comic suburban family drama came across as Bernstein’s most personal and affecting work. Critic?s Notebook: Move From Lincoln Center Could Fortify City Opera?s Identity 2011-05-22T17:13:34Z

Both have gone on to be widely performed, and both have been newly recorded by other conductors and orchestras. After five years of Gustavo Dudamel, what's next? 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z

Budapest Festival Orchestra conductor Ivan Fischer removed his jacket to reveal a white dress shirt with a hole cut out of the sleeve. Hungary: Baton raised, orchestra conductor gets vaccine shot 2021-08-26T04:00:00Z

He produced the majority of Seattle Symphony Orchestra's recordings, eventually becoming SSO's assistant, then later associate, conductor. Seattle Philharmonic embraces Bruckner's 'big' symphony 2010-03-17T23:14:00Z

The face becomes all the more important when the hands are otherwise occupied, as when a conductor simultaneously plays a keyboard, a common practice of early-music specialists like Mr. Bicket. Breaking Conductors? Down by Gesture and Body Part 2012-04-06T12:00:28Z

Gergiev has added to its renown through his intense array of foreign conducting gigs, including being principal conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra and principal guest conductor at the Metropolitan Opera for a decade. Mariinsky celebrates 150 years, looks to future 2010-09-17T02:16:00Z

Many years ago I asked Stephen Barlow, conductor and composer, if he would consider writing the music to accompany The Rainbow Bear, about a polar bear who becomes obsessed with hunting rainbows rather than food. War Horse: adapt and survive 2010-08-20T23:06:00Z

The late conductor and baton pedagogue Max Rudolf once said that a conductor's first job is to listen. Haitink's mellow mastery an ideal match for CSO's power 2011-05-27T16:27:33Z

Strauss described “Capriccio,” with a libretto by the composer and the conductor Clemens Krauss, as a “conversation piece for music.” Music Review: Words or Music: Why Choose? 2011-03-29T22:23:23Z

The National Symphony Orchestra has had several music directors — including its current one, Christoph Eschenbach — who were performers before they were conductors. At NSO, German composer leads French music — and his own 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z

Rarely does a conductor with an eye on a mainstream career tackle music written before Bach’s time, works typically reserved for specialists and scholars. Pablo Heras-Casado, With Orchestra of St. Luke’s 2012-08-03T18:26:47Z

The bankers in Zurich clearly support the opera, for the company pays handsomely to attract world-class singers and conductors, despite the city’s relatively modest status on the cultural radar. Zurich, for a Song 2010-09-24T18:42:00Z

He was the first internationally esteemed conductor everyone, whether you knew him or not, called by the familiar, Lenny. Leonard Bernstein at 100: Why the music world is making this the Year of Lenny 2018-01-11T05:00:00Z

Adam Benzwi, the American conductor who is the production’s music director, said he felt a definite tension between the critical distance that Brecht’s text invites and the emotional immediacy of Weill’s songs. ‘The Threepenny Opera,’ Without the ‘Cabaret’ Clichés 2021-08-05T04:00:00Z

Four nights of performances led by guest conductor Bob Bernhardt are scheduled starting Wednesday in the Detroit suburb of Dearborn. Greenfield Village hosts Salute to America shows 2014-07-02T04:00:00Z

More will emerge of Mr. Litton the dance conductor when he tackles Bizet, Verdi, Tchaikovsky and Hindemith later this week. Review: New York City Ballet’s Winter Season Blends Movement and Music 2016-01-20T05:00:00Z

Mr. Levine is a supreme Wagner conductor who taps into the dramatic depths and gravity of the music while eliciting playing of clarity and precision. Music Review: Met Orchestra at Carnegie Hall, Conducted by Semyon Bychkov 2012-10-15T22:03:59Z

Young conductors continue to fly in from across the world. David Zinman Ends His Tenure With Tonhalle in Zurich 2014-07-18T04:00:00Z

Abbado also worked in the United States, often serving as guest conductor of the New York Philharmonic, the Cleveland Orchestra and the Philadelphia Orchestra. Conductor Claudio Abbado, 'champion of music', dies aged 80 2014-01-20T16:36:52Z

“I’m very grateful to the Chorale for letting me join in,” says Willis, who served as a Seattle Symphony associate conductor from 2000 to 2003. Alastair Willis brings insights to conducting Beethoven’s Ninth 2017-12-22T05:00:00Z

“Usually pianists want the opposite!” the conductor said. A 19-Year-Old Pianist Electrifies Audiences. But He’s Unimpressed. 2023-05-09T04:00:00Z

Now 31, the German conductor became Europe’s youngest general music director in 2014 when she took over the theater in Erfurt. Perspective | Female conductors to watch 2017-11-03T04:00:00Z

One featured a band of uninterested players policed by a conductor who, for the most part, seemed content to beat time. Music Review: Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos Leads the New York Philharmonic 2012-10-20T02:50:07Z

She memorises her role by watching a Swiss production on the plane to New York, and only meets her co-lead and the conductor the day before the opening. Spooks 2010-10-04T05:45:00Z

His view of noise was clearly not that of the concertgoer upset about a neighbor’s crinkling plastic bag, or the conductor flustered by a cellphone’s intrusion. Music Review: Red Light New Music at Leonard Nimoy Thalia 2012-05-22T21:50:12Z

He is above all, though, a very good conductor, and he led a lucid, colorful performance of an engaging if not entirely successful work, its four movements lasting more than 50 minutes. Review: A Concerto in Which East Meets West, and Peace Reigns 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z

While he hasn’t wanted to make what he called “a big fuss” about his relationship, Mr. Nézet-Séguin sees himself and Mr. Tourville as symbolic of a widening conception of what a conductor can be. The Met Opera Has a Gay Conductor. Yes, That Matters. 2019-01-15T05:00:00Z

Orchestra officials praised Alsop for her accomplishments as the second-longest-tenured conductor in the orchestra’s history, saying her creativity and leadership expanded its reach in the city and internationally. Baltimore Symphony Orchestra music director Marin Alsop to step down next year 2020-02-26T05:00:00Z

“If Valery Gergiev does not take a clear stance by Monday, he can no longer remain chief conductor of our philharmonic.” Munich may fire Russian conductor Gergiev over Ukraine 2022-02-25T05:00:00Z

Once, Mr. Allen recalled, he was waiting for the conductor, James Levine, to ascend the podium, while Levine was waiting for Mr. Allen to conclude his narration. Peter Allen, stalwart host of the Metropolitan Opera’s radio broadcasts, dies at 96 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z

But conductor Christopher Zimmerman barely broke a sweat here at the George Mason Center for the Arts. FSO trades timidity for vigor after intermission 2016-11-20T05:00:00Z

Discouraged by ingrained prejudice and arguments that they don’t possess what it takes to command an orchestra, successful female conductors still have the rarity of a protected species. Elim Chan’s Flick Conducting Prize Is Rare Win for a Woman 2014-12-10T05:00:00Z

Though Toscanini was a phenomenal opera conductor, in recent years I have found myself less enchanted by his classic recordings from the 1940s with the NBC Symphony. Toscanini and Giulini Put Their Mark on ?Traviata? 2010-04-04T21:37:00Z

Round table discussions with orchestra conductors and soloists will follow some performances, according to festival staff. In Transit Blog: This Prague Spring Features Music 2012-05-12T00:00:48Z

The festival, which is planned for Nov. 3 through Nov. 19, will feature, in addition to the three conductors’ ensembles, over 50 orchestras, chamber music groups, choirs and jazz ensembles. California’s Leading Conductors Come Together for a New Festival 2023-01-31T05:00:00Z

Mr. Mena, a Spanish conductor who holds posts in Britain, Norway and Italy, was a sensitive collaborator, and the orchestra performed with an enthusiastic pride of ownership in the work that nearly matched Ms. Hahn’s. Music Review: Sound That?s Lush and Slow, Speedy and Precise 2011-02-16T22:49:49Z

Topchjan, who led the program without scores, is an unsmiling, serious, commanding conductor. An eloquent remembrance by Armenian National Philharmonic 2015-05-13T04:00:00Z

Across the river in Cambridge, the respected composer and Harvard professor Leon Kirchner also had a following as a conductor back then, though he was not the most efficient technician. When Boston Ruled the Music World 2021-04-09T04:00:00Z

Highhanded behavior was common in conductors of the last century, with maestros like Arturo Toscanini and George Solti known as harsh taskmasters. Daniel Barenboim Seemed Untouchable. Now He’s Accused of Bullying. 2019-02-26T05:00:00Z

The conductors Dimitri Mitropoulos and especially Leonard Bernstein, with his New York Philharmonic, normally get all the credit; their early 1960s recordings helped launch the current Mahler craze. CD reviews: Mullova shines in Prokofiev 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z

He doesn’t want to be a conductor who works well into old age; he has the farm, after all. A Conductor Who Knows His Way Around a Score, and a Farm 2022-07-29T04:00:00Z

He was replaced by George Steel, an impresario and conductor from the Dallas Opera. Board of troubled NYC Opera meets to talk future 2011-05-19T16:51:18Z

In August, after just one season as music director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the dynamic Latvian conductor Andris Nelsons signed an extended contract that will keep him in that post until 2022. Review: Boston Symphony Orchestra Delivers Electric ‘Elektra’ 2015-10-23T04:00:00Z

They married in 1897, and he liked telling people that their son Walter was born exactly nine months after the wedding: “in tempo, like a good conductor.” A Life of Toscanini, Maestro With Passion and Principles 2017-06-27T04:00:00Z

As the chief conductor he provided crucial artistic stability during a financial crisis that led the storied Philadelphia Orchestra to file for Chapter 11 reorganization last year. Music Review: Charles Dutoit Conducts Philadelphia Orchestra, Carnegie Hall 2012-05-21T04:01:15Z

In fact, the Philharmonic brought in a second conductor, Case Scaglione, to lead certain sections in some of the work’s more schizophrenic moments, a strategy common in performances of this piece. Music Review: New York Philharmonic at Avery Fisher Hall 2013-04-18T21:42:45Z

The South Korean conductor Myung-whun Chung will conduct two guest concerts of Mahler’s Sixth Symphony here on Feb. 25 and 26. Performance Guide 2014-12-22T05:00:00Z

On Friday night, he returned to Walt Disney Concert Hall for the first of three weeks leading his old orchestra, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, of which he is conductor laureate, in a brilliant concert. A hero's welcome for Esa-Pekka Salonen at Disney Hall 2016-01-31T05:00:00Z

It is not often that a conductor of any age can bring out the musically daring elements of a crowd pleaser like Dukas’s “Sorcerer’s Apprentice.” Music Review: Lionel Bringuier Leads Philharmonic by Himself 2013-06-14T19:16:12Z

When the time came to attend the Sibelius Academy proper, Mäkelä continued with cello — though he never graduated — and played in the Helsinki Philharmonic, under conductors including Mälkki. At 26, the Conductor Klaus Mäkelä’s Star Keeps Rising and Rising 2022-12-02T05:00:00Z

The conductor Leon Botstein, the festival’s founding director, leads the American Symphony Orchestra, the Bard Festival Chorale and an enticing roster of singers. Opera & Classical Music Listings for Aug. 15-21 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z

He lured the Italian maestro Carl Maria Giulini, promising to keep to a minimum the administrative and fund-raising chores typically attendant on a conductor and music director. Ernest Fleischmann, Impresario of Los Angeles, Dies at 85 2010-06-16T05:24:00Z

In the pit, conductor Bruno Campanella took a while to establish the necessary sparkle after a workmanlike start. L'Elisir d'Amore – review 2012-11-14T12:21:46Z

Rouvali, just appointed music director of the Gothenburg Symphony in Sweden, is Finnish — yet further confirmation that his small country produces more major conductors per capita than anyplace else. The next new Finnish star conductor takes the stand in Disney Hall 2016-11-13T05:00:00Z

In Naples, the conductor Michele Mariotti seemed to sing — or at least mouth — every word along with his singers, presiding over a subtle performance of many moods and colorings. Verdi’s Shakespeare Resonates Across Italian Opera Houses 2021-12-17T05:00:00Z

There are 55 notes in it, being played by 100 instruments, and the conductor has to know them all, or he has no right to ascend the podium in the first place. 2010-02-15T16:59:00Z

It’s not always a given these days that conductors and singers of their level converge. Opera Review: Anna Netrebko in ‘Manon Lescaut,’ at the Rome Opera 2014-03-03T17:53:28Z

“There’s nothing more important to me than family,” announced Seattle Symphony Orchestra’s new principal pops conductor, Jeff Tyzik, from the stage at Thursday night’s “Holiday Pops” concert. Benaroya audience, new pops conductor hit it off | Concert review 2012-12-07T18:00:58Z

Mr. Litton has yet to master all the skills of the ideal ballet conductor. City Ballet Closes Its Season With Power and Glow 2016-05-30T04:00:00Z

British conductor Sir Neville Marriner received an Outstanding Achievement Award for his lengthy career, which still finds him conducting at the age of 90. Flautist Galway tells awards audience of his 'bug' for practicing 2014-09-17T04:00:00Z

Tyzik is principal pops conductor for all those organizations, as well as the Detroit Symphony and Dallas Symphony Orchestra. SSO Holiday Pops to offer favorites with a few twists 2013-11-29T15:01:24Z

And he was business-savvy, founding musical companies and working as a conductor and concert manager for his own works. Highlights in the prolific life of George Frideric Handel 2011-03-05T00:37:31Z

This is one reason that Ms. Hannigan, unlike many other female conductors, chooses not to shroud her arms, or her femininity as a whole, in, say, a dark suit. Barbara Hannigan Sings and Conducts at the Lucerne Festival 2014-08-19T04:00:00Z

Mr. Gardiner is an expressive conductor, shaping phrases with expansive arm gestures and the occasional sideways flick of a hip. Music Review: John Eliot Gardiner Leads Ensembles at Carnegie Hall 2012-11-19T22:57:38Z

In almost all her recordings she was partnered, as conductor, by Bonynge, who prepared meticulously authentic editions of the works in hand. Dame Joan Sutherland obituary 2010-10-11T17:56:00Z

“We don’t make sound as conductors,” said James Gaffigan, who had been set to lead the opening night of Rossini’s “La Cenerentola” at the Met on March 12. ‘We Can’t Do Our Craft’: Conductors Contend With the Pandemic 2020-06-26T04:00:00Z

The conductor Bertrand de Billy drew a stylish, vibrant and sensitive performance from the Met Orchestra. Review: Lisette Oropesa Makes ‘La Traviata’ Her Own 2020-02-27T05:00:00Z

She powers through nervous perspiration to attend tango class, learning to follow the “GPS” of a partner’s upper chest rather than a conductor’s baton. A Violinist Rethinks Her Devotion to Music, With Emotion and Erudition 2022-03-28T04:00:00Z

In August, she conducted a concert of Brahms and Mahler at the Hollywood Bowl and is an assistant conductor with the orchestra. L.A. Phil's Mirga Gražinyte-Tyla conducts herself with aplomb 2014-12-26T05:00:00Z

“It is especially important for a conductor to find the right ‘color’ or ‘tinta’ of the score,” he said. ?Attila? and Muti in Debuts at the Met 2010-02-19T18:03:00Z

Some conductors might have been inclined to emphasize the music’s frenetic intensity. Music Review: An Unlikely Pair, Making Musical Sense 2011-07-14T23:06:24Z

One challenge was finding a substitute for cues typically delivered as conductor nods. A Philip Glass Score Was Lost. 50 Years Later, Here It Is. 2020-05-22T04:00:00Z

The fiery young conductor is also the artistic director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic. Dudamel calls Venezuela orchestra tour cancellation heartbreaking 2017-08-21T04:00:00Z

So conductors can get away with a lax dress code. Trade Secrets From the Wagner Festival Whisperer 2018-08-01T04:00:00Z

But that very section showed some of the limitations of this particular performance with this particular conductor. Review | To start NSO residency, Elder beguiles with words, not tones 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z

As always, Mr. Schwarz, best known as the music director of the Seattle Symphony for 26 years and for two decades at the helm of the Mostly Mozart festival, proves a skilled and efficient conductor. Critic’s Notebook: TV Lets the All-Stars Play Together 2013-09-06T21:33:14Z

Sir Andrew, who turned 70 in February, is one of four of this year's British Proms conductors celebrating significant birthdays. Music maestro 'addicted' to Proms 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z

The closing concert of the Manchester Mahler cycle, it was also Noseda's first after the news that his next season will be his last as chief conductor. BBCPhil/Noseda 2010-06-08T21:31:00Z

I started a fellowship for women conductors in 2002 because there just weren’t enough. Rhythm of change: Marin Alsop leads the Baltimore Symphony into the future 2016-12-20T05:00:00Z

Without question one of the most important conductors of his century, Rosbaud was also one of the finest. He Was an Important Conductor. Also a Great One. 2022-01-13T05:00:00Z

The evening’s conductor, Antony Walker, on the other hand, often seemed a minority of one in the matter of tempos. Music Review: An Underworld Rescue With Dancers and Chorus 2011-05-01T21:23:02Z

In the past, conductors, too, might have tired of the ballet’s familiar score, but the Tchaikovsky has renewed value now. Perspective | Don’t share the lipstick! How ballet companies are planning covid-free ‘Nutcrackers.’ 2021-11-22T05:00:00Z

There are splendid Wagner singers and conductors today, and many invaluable recordings have been made in the last 20 years or so. Critics Name Their Favorite Wagner Recordings 2013-08-22T20:50:13Z

Always the conductor struck a fine balance between architectural control and a flexible singing line wending its way through clear, well-balanced textures. Haitink's mellow mastery an ideal match for CSO's power 2011-05-27T16:27:33Z

The piece presents several problems of direction and balance for the conductor. Britten's War Requiem; Music in the Space Time Continuum – review 2013-06-29T23:06:15Z

The “Messiah,” an oratorio that tells the story of Christ’s life, is not usually performed in its entirety, and it wasn’t here: conductors choose which solo arias and choruses they want to include. Hallelujah! Seattle Symphony and Chorale deliver an energetic, nuanced ‘Messiah’ 2019-12-21T05:00:00Z

Now, he continued to rehearse them in public, running through snippets and discussing those with players and audience alike, drawing lessons in leadership from the work of the conductor and the interactions of the players. Roger Nierenberg and the Music Paradigm Program 2014-09-17T04:00:00Z

With his warm, easy personality, Cohen was popular as a leader, supporting his orchestra in the face of unmusical or technically incorrect requests from a conductor. Raymond Cohen obituary 2011-03-22T18:23:06Z

The Swiss-born conductor has enjoyed an association with the CSO that goes back nearly 29 years, and familiarity, in this case, has bred respect all around. CSO and soloists shine under Dutoit, but Penderecki piece is dull 2011-03-18T17:25:13Z

Wind players were grouped in front, closest to the conductor, and in front of the strings in an ensemble of 37 or so players. Baltimore Symphony Orchestra does the Bach family proud 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z

So we want to hear from tuba players, chamber quartet members, conductors, composers, piano teachers, orchestra fund-raisers and any other professionals about what sparked their interest in the field. ArtsBeat: What inspired you to work in classical music? 2013-07-12T16:09:05Z

The star Russian maestro and vocal supporter of Mr. Putin was removed from his post as chief conductor of the Munich Philharmonic after he refused to denounce Russia’s actions in Ukraine. Too Close to Putin? Institutions Vet Artists, Uncomfortably. 2022-03-05T05:00:00Z

I know of no ballet conductor anywhere today who has such revelatory affinity with the music of one composer as Mr. Lamarche does with Delibes, as the “Sylvia” dance showed. Review: In Gala, American Ballet Theater Is Open to Debate 2016-05-17T04:00:00Z

The conductor on Monday was Plácido Domingo, who just finished a Met run of Verdi’s “Luisa Miller,” the latest attempt by this towering artist to prolong his vocal career as a reconstituted baritone. Review: Third Tenor’s Not Quite a Charm in the Met’s ‘Roméo’ 2018-04-24T04:00:00Z

Composer, conductor, activist, teacher, rule-breaker, American icon: Leonard Bernstein was a towering figure for the many American musicians who came in his turbulent wake. Perspective | Does Leonard Bernstein have any heirs? 2017-09-15T04:00:00Z

I told her I wanted to be a conductor, and she told me, “You’re too young, and girls don’t do that.” Cracking a Glass Ceiling With the Maestro’s Baton 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z

With Mr. Welser-Möst’s appointment, Mr. Rosenberg turned from biographer into pariah, castigating the conductor — while often sparing the players — in years of relentlessly harsh reviews. Welser-Möst and the Cleveland Orchestra Head to Lincoln Center Festival 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z

The real discovery of the rehearsal rooms was to scotch one of the biggest myths about conducting and conductors – the idea of the conductor as power-hungry maestro. Mystery of the maestros: what are conductors for? 2012-06-01T21:55:13Z

Simon Rattle, who is currently the chief conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic, will become music director in the 2017-18 season. Gianandrea Noseda Named London Symphony's Principal Guest Conductor 1456-09-08T05:00:00Z

Mr. Rattle maintains close ties to Birmingham, and Simon Halsey, the orchestra’s chorus director, is also the chief conductor of the Berlin Radio Choir. Music Review: Jonathan Harvey’s ‘Weltethos’ in England 2012-06-22T23:59:58Z

Her father, Cecil, was a porter and then a subway conductor; her mother, Ometa, dreamed of becoming a professional pianist, but had to enter domestic service. Elayne Jones, Pioneering Percussionist, Is Dead at 94 2022-12-21T05:00:00Z

Her husbands included Leopold Stokowski, the celebrated conductor, and Sidney Lumet, the award-winning movie and television director. Gloria Vanderbilt, heiress, jeans queen, dies at 95 2019-06-17T04:00:00Z

The score suggests that the conductor also play a toy saxophone and take up parts of the narration. Philharmonic to Present H. K. Gruber?s ?Frankenstein!!? 2011-12-04T04:23:05Z

The idea to perform the work came from Joe Miller, the choir’s conductor and the festival’s director for choral activities, who carried through the musical end of things admirably. The Operas ‘Facing Goya’ and ‘Katya Kabanova,’ at Spoleto 2014-05-27T04:00:00Z

Other highlights include a complete cycle of Beethoven from the superb Pacifica Quartet, and two appearances from the Lucerne Symphony, under a young American conductor of note, James Gaffigan. 10 Spring and Summer Classical Festivals 2017-05-18T04:00:00Z

The composer – also a poet, himself, as well as the opera’s librettist and conductor – was 25 when he completed the score. Walt Whitman's operatic America in 'Crossing' gets its West Coast premiere 2018-05-27T04:00:00Z

He lost confidence in his own powers to steer the sprawling forces required and brought in a second conductor. War Requiem; King Priam; Caligula – review 2012-06-02T23:05:59Z

Few can write a more vivid neighbor, train conductor or, more usually, bartender. Nearly a Century Later, We’re Still Reading — and Changing Our Minds About — Gatsby 2020-12-30T05:00:00Z

The woman Field creates has achieved more power than any female conductor in history. In ‘Tár,’ a Female Maestro Falls Into the Same Old Traps 2022-10-13T04:00:00Z

The singers, arranged in a semicircle, were tackling Mr. Braxton’s “Composition No. 256,” staring hard at their sheet music while trying to keep track of their conductor. The Tri-Centric Festival Honors Anthony Braxton 2011-10-04T21:19:10Z

But a conductor listed as the star in a film biography, with no connection to music? Russian conductor joins Seattle Symphony for Shostakovich 2011-03-11T21:29:04Z

Last year at Glyndebourne, the conductor dressed in a bunny suit, and heart-shaped confetti rained down on the audience in a performance of Purcell's Fairy-Queen. How I fell out of love with opera 2010-05-27T21:00:00Z

The challenge for a conductor is to find a comfortable balance for Haydn’s slightly off-kilter forces, and Mr. Rhorer struggled with this at first. Music Review: Mostly Mozart at Avery Fisher Hall - Review 2011-08-25T22:15:11Z

He also directed a three-day master class for young conductors — conductor days, as he modestly renamed it — with an emphasis, again, on Brahms. Critic?s Notebook: A Jewel of a Spring Festival, Not Selling Out, but Still Sparkling 2011-04-20T22:16:56Z

Though this performance had three conductors, Mr. Tritle was the guiding force. Music Review: Oratorio Society of New York at Carnegie Hall 2013-04-23T20:56:32Z

He wasn’t one of these conductors who inflicted a strong personality on the music. Joshua Bell on the death of Neville Marriner and picking up the baton from a legend 2016-10-11T04:00:00Z

According to the conductor Dennis Russell Davies, no composer since Beethoven has done more to invigorate the symphonic literature, with the exceptions of Gustav Mahler and Dmitri Shostakovich. ‘Words Without Music’: A look inside Philip Glass’s creative genius 2015-04-15T04:00:00Z

A trove within the trove comes in the minutes of the music policy committee, established by the board in 1955 to clamp down on programming choices and the selecting of guest conductors and soloists. Mahler Said What to Whom? 2011-02-03T22:00:06Z

A young conductor, Robert Whitney, quickly drummed the ensemble into shape, but financial problems loomed from the start. Survival Strategies for Orchestras 2011-05-25T18:35:56Z

Mr. Gergiev is also in peril of losing several key posts, including as chief conductor of the Munich Philharmonic and as honorary conductor of the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra. Metropolitan Opera Says It Will Cut Ties With Pro-Putin Artists 2022-02-27T05:00:00Z

Into the breach for Thursday night's subscription concert in Orchestra Hall strode Juanjo Mena, a Spanish conductor little known in this country who was recently named chief conductor of the BBC Philharmonic in Manchester, England. Sizzling debut by violinist Renaud Capucon lifts CSO concert out of the ordinary 2011-01-14T17:38:01Z

Newman: As a conductor, I can bring out more of the score, especially in movies like these that were recorded in mono. L.A. Phil plays 'Rebel,' 'Casablanca' and 'Waterfront' as the live-to-picture craze grows 2016-11-15T05:00:00Z

Phil on the map, the great German conductor considered an orchestra sharing a home with a church provincial and intrusive, and he immediately began agitating for a dedicated hall for the orchestra. How the Music Center broke new ground for major arts institutions 2014-11-14T05:00:00Z

After all, at a time when people hunger for one-of-a-kind live events, what is the inherent attraction of hearing, say, an Italian conductor leading a French orchestra in a Tchaikovsky symphony? Review | Czech Philharmonic showcases musical birthright 2018-10-30T04:00:00Z

We're still the dancer not the choreographer, and still the musician, not the conductor. Novelist Sapphire complains of 'very real' racism in the arts 2011-08-23T14:37:08Z

Though still relatively little known in America, Mr. Denève is chief conductor of the Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra and music director of the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, and he made a mostly favorable impression here. Music Review: The Boston Symphony Orchestra at Carnegie Hall 2012-03-12T22:16:17Z

Dan Saunders, an assistant Met conductor, played the piano accompaniments deftly, and if the balances were not quite perfect — he was often greatly overpowered by the amplified voices — no one seemed inclined to complain. Music Review: The Metropolitan Opera in Central Park 2012-07-26T21:57:22Z

The problem isn’t musical: The orchestra and its longtime conductor, Michael Tilson Thomas, are commanding, sounding rich yet lean, in this daunting work, which is one of the glories of Beethoven’s final years. Review: San Francisco Symphony Stages ‘Missa Solemnis’ With a Visual Component 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z

“The conductor just called me and said, ‘I’m so sorry, the singers don’t feel comfortable,’” said Tonya Wechsler, the show’s producer. What Is Russia Thinking? A ‘Documentary Opera’ Tries to Answer. 2023-02-15T05:00:00Z

Mr. Nézet-Séguin is one of the more physically expressive conductors, perhaps, he said, because of his small stature. Breaking Conductors? Down by Gesture and Body Part 2012-04-06T12:00:28Z

“Too many conductors,” he grumbled disapprovingly in an almost British manner, “are not all that interested in musicology.” Ren? Jacobs?s Harmonia Mundi CDs and DVDs 2011-11-20T02:15:30Z

This week, Ms. Zhang will undertake an especially fortuitous assignment with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, filling in at short notice for a conductor who was prevented from traveling. A Conductor Becomes a Virtual-Concert Jet-Setter 2020-11-04T05:00:00Z

Blanchett gestures on the podium like a real conductor; a few references to the symphony she is preparing as “the Five” — rather than “the Fifth” or “Mahler Five” — are almost the only slips of tone. In ‘Tár,’ a Female Maestro Falls Into the Same Old Traps 2022-10-13T04:00:00Z

The former head conductor of the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra was making his first visit to the venue in nearly eight years. Danny Elfman concert at Hollywood Bowl brings out Tim Burton fans 2015-11-01T04:00:00Z

“Canceling it plays exactly into the narrative that Putin wants us all to believe: That the world wants to do away with the Russian culture,” said Steven Karidoyanes, the orchestra’s conductor. Amid Ukraine War, Orchestras Rethink ‘1812 Overture,’ a July 4 Rite 2022-07-03T04:00:00Z

The conductor Franz Welser-Möst drew out every lushly lyrical strand of Strauss’s teeming and volatile score, played brilliantly by the Vienna Philharmonic. At Salzburg, an Unlikely Operatic Trio of Women Finding Their Way 2018-08-17T04:00:00Z

Often called the country’s oldest orchestra, the Hallé and its choir were established in 1858 by a German pianist and conductor, Charles Hallé. A Critic’s First Orchestra Defines Britain’s Musical Soul 2018-06-15T04:00:00Z

Mr. Runnicles, an acclaimed conductor of Wagner and Strauss, draws exceptional playing from the Atlanta Symphony, rich with mellow sound and controlled intensity. On the Disc, Not the Stage 2010-09-03T15:19:00Z

The conductor, Michael Tilson-Thomas, had really kind of loaded the dice. Steve Reich on Schoenberg, Coltrane and Radiohead 2013-03-01T07:00:12Z

Dr. Contino, who specialized in the visceral, unsentimental realism of Italian verismo opera, was also a music professor and vocal coach, but was best known as an acclaimed conductor. Fiora Corradetti Contino, Opera Maestra, Dies at 91 2017-03-15T04:00:00Z

The unlikely host and artistic director, the gifted conductor and musical theater archivist Rob Fisher, was not the person you would expect to oversee such a project. Music Review: ?In Perfect Harmony? in Lyrics & Lyricists at 92nd Street Y 2012-03-25T21:32:16Z

There are some interesting career parallels between the two conductors. A little Russian diplomacy saves the day at the Hollywood Bowl 2017-08-02T04:00:00Z

He has followed, as conductor and composer, in Pierre Boulez’s footsteps. Getting to know — or at least trying to — Matthias Pintscher at an L.A. Phil concert 2018-01-07T05:00:00Z

And yet, at 62, Langrée has never been one of the world’s most famous or sought-after conductors. Louis Langrée Wraps Up a Quietly Transformative Era of Conducting 2023-07-14T04:00:00Z

Bernstein maintained a breakneck schedule as a composer, teacher and conductor for the rest of his life. Seattle festival celebrates the many facets of Bernstein and his music 2010-04-07T22:17:00Z

The importance of connecting with people is something that Salonen, both as a conductor and as a composer, which takes up an increasing amount of his time, says he learned in LA. Conductor Salonen dashes from Frank Zappa to Stravinsky 2013-04-04T09:30:14Z

His grandfather, the conductor, had been ostracized by the Castro government for being part of the old guard. Juan Carlos Formell, Buoyant Heir of Cuban Musical Legacy, Dies at 59 2023-05-30T04:00:00Z

They vibrate and buzz in different ways to indicate to the player the pace and dynamics the conductor wants. 'Haptic baton' offers new hope for blind musicians 2019-03-04T05:00:00Z

The esteemed Finnish conductor Susanna Malkki, 47, will begin her tenure as chief conductor of the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra in September. Cracking a Glass Ceiling With the Maestro’s Baton 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z

“Tár,” in which a renowned orchestra conductor is confronted by her history of problematic relationships with mentees, premiered in November. Perspective | The #MeToo movies have finally arrived. Only one captures the truth. 2022-12-05T05:00:00Z

My one claim to fame is that I'm the world's youngest conductor to conduct all of Mahler's symphonies. Bath celebrates the life of the bedhopping singing star of the 1700s 2010-04-12T06:00:00Z

"I'm happy to have a moment to wipe my brow," said the conductor. Danny Elfman can relate to 'Nightmare Before Christmas' hero Jack Skellington 2015-10-24T04:00:00Z

Orchestras are chosen based on proposed programs, not their prestige, conductor or audience size. Seattle Symphony and ‘Ocean’ play to adoring crowd at Carnegie Hall 2014-05-08T00:33:04Z

Now the Met finds itself forced to court both philanthropists and audiences as it faces difficult questions about what it knew, or should have known, about its star conductor. James Levine’s Final Act at the Met Ends in Disgrace 2018-03-12T04:00:00Z

To be a conductor, though, meant working with the existing machinery. Pierre Boulez, French Composer, Dies at 90 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z

Mr. Luisi is a frequent guest conductor internationally, equally adept at Strauss, Verdi and Wagner. Fabio Luisi Is to Be Met Opera?s Principal Guest Conductor 2010-04-27T21:07:00Z

He started conducting when he was a clarinetist in a youth orchestra whose conductor was often called away. Seattle Youth Symphony Orchestra’s new music director, Juan Felipe Molano, is already making his mark 2020-02-26T05:00:00Z

Years later, Mr. McClure and Mr. Williams worked together on a series of recordings and television performances while Mr. Williams was the conductor of the Boston Pops in the 1980s and early ’90s. John McClure Dies at 84; Produced Classic Records 2014-06-24T04:00:00Z

The conductor Michele Gamba painted in dusky pastels, finding unanimity of color in swelling strings and pearly woodwinds. Review: A Tenor Arrives at the Met Opera in ‘Elisir’ 2023-04-18T04:00:00Z

“There are too many qualities to start, but I am a sound-oriented conductor, and this orchestra — when you hear it once, you will not forget it.” Klaus Mäkelä, 26, Takes Podium at Storied Concertgebouw Orchestra 2022-06-10T04:00:00Z

I tried to interest conductors in presenting the work. John LaMontaine, Composer, Dies at 93 2013-05-15T02:27:49Z

Anton Bruckner had a steadfast circle of supporters, including some significant conductors and composers. Music Review: An Unlikely Pair, Making Musical Sense 2011-07-14T23:06:24Z

At the final curtain, after all the nudity and debauchery, the audience seemed dazed before giving warm applause to the cast, conductor Jonathan Stockhammer and the composer. Ades' `Powder Her Face' opens NY City Opera season 2013-02-17T18:35:09Z

He made a positive impression on both the musicians and the audiences in his Seattle debut as guest conductor last year, and again in his return last month. Rising French star Ludovic Morlot chosen to replace Schwarz at Seattle Symphony 2010-06-29T22:07:00Z

When she gestured the orchestra to rise after the Schubert, the players remained seated in a rare tribute to a young conductor making her debut. Review: Make this L.A. Chamber Orchestra guest conductor feel at home 2015-01-26T05:00:00Z

The Bavarian State Opera’s music director and the next chief conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic, Mr. Petrenko embraces the awkwardness, and blazes through it. Review: Opera Lovers, Make a Pilgrimage to Munich for ‘Tannhäuser’ 2017-05-23T04:00:00Z

In 2008, he dismissed star conductors as egocentrics more interested in money and prestige than developing a musical relationship with an orchestra. Nigel Kennedy accuses fellow violinists of destroying Bach's legacy 2011-08-13T21:56:11Z

But it was a challenge well met by conductor and players, even if you don't expect to encounter it very often. Prom 15: BBCSO/Belohlávek – review 2012-07-26T11:47:33Z

He plans to return as a guest conductor. Van Zweden to leave New York Philharmonic after 2023-24 2021-09-15T04:00:00Z

Do conductors and soloists break character when they allow themselves to react to events in the room? Critic’s Notebook: Maestro at Work: Hold That Cough 2013-12-31T22:27:31Z

That recording was the conductor Thomas Wilkins’s introduction to Mr. Hailstork’s music. A Pianist Swings Hard in Both Classical and Jazz 2019-02-15T05:00:00Z

Soyeon Kate Lee, 42, a Korean American pianist, said a conductor once described her in front of other orchestra leaders as “cheap and good” and suggested she perform a lap dance. Asians Are Represented in Classical Music. But Are They Seen? 2021-07-21T04:00:00Z

At 52, Mälkki is one of the world’s top conductors, widely sought between her appearances in Helsinki and with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, of which she is the principal guest conductor. A Conductor Considers Her Future 2021-12-31T05:00:00Z

This wasn’t the tidiest performance on record — conductor Christopher Zimmerman’s hyperactivity on the podium did not encourage close reading — but the broad scope of the piece emerged handsomely. A bright program in which Dvorak wasn’t the feature 2015-02-08T05:00:00Z

Two days after George Gershwin's 112th birthday, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra conductor Robert Spano shares a thought about the composer's beloved "Rhapsody In Blue": "Does music get any better?" Strong 20th-century program ? including Gershwin ? on SSO's plate next week 2010-09-30T20:44:00Z

The appointment is for principal guest conductor and not more than that. Luisi appointed Met's principal guest conductor 2010-04-27T23:37:00Z

The interplay here between conductor and soloist was palpable. New York String Orchestra Performs at Carnegie Hall 2014-12-29T05:00:00Z

Preparation is essential for any conductor leading an orchestra, including when an orchestra is going to record an original soundtrack. ‘Legend of Zelda’ to bring video adventures to the concert hall 2013-09-11T14:31:08Z